996 ERICACEAE 
8. A. alabamensis (Rehd er) Small Shrub up to 1 m. tall, the twigs pale- 
strigose: leaf-blades Tides to elliptie or elliptie-obovate, 3-6 c m. long, loosely 
short-pu escent beneath and strigillose on the midrib: eui e Iob: ovate, often 
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lar-pubescent without; lobes shorter than the tube: anthers 2-3 mm. dnd 
iid eylindric-ellipsoid, about 1.5 em. long, loosely pubescent and more 
less  glandular-bristly. [Eho odo Pu n alabamense | Rehder.]—Dry phil 
Coastal Plain and adj. provinces, Ala.—Spr.—The flowers are fragrant. 
9. atlantica Ashe. Shrub with the more or less aud m way 
less than 0.5 m. tall, the twigs sparingly strigi oe and som pears rel 
hirsute: leaf- blades obovate, M ate, o metimes ‘alliptic 3-6 ¢ 
long, mostly glabrous beneath, except the pu unseen “midrib, (finely aa 
on both sides and plait ea A A, atlantica luteo-alba) : ealyx-lobes d 
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anthers 2-3 mm. long: capsule ovoid-ellipsoid, 1.5-2 em. long, bristly with 
glandless or i tipped hairs.—Low ES nelands, Coastal Plain, S. C. to Del 
Spr.—The flowers are very owe —An azalea ae "referable to A. 
atlantica luteo-alba occurs in SA 
10. A. a L. Shrub 0.5-5 mm. tall, the twigs loosely pubescent and 
sae p or - decidedly hispid in A. viscosa hispida) ; the winter-buds typically 
om (or densely p and the leaves up to 6 cm. long in A. viscosa 
emulans, or silky-pu , and the leaves up to 4 cm. long in A. viscosa 
oun: leaf- rdi poss to obovate or individually elliptie or elliptic- 
ee 2-6 cm. long, thickish, ciliate, strigillose on the midrib beneath, 
or finely and RU densely pubescent beneath in A. viscosa tomentosa), dull 
white or pink-tinged; tube 1.5-2.5 cm. long, rather abruptly ye lr the 
limb; lobes sa shorter than the tube: capsule ellipsoid-ovoid, m. long, 
gla andular-hirsut —(SWAMP-AZALEA.)—Acid swamps, various ae Fla. 
to Miss., Ohio, an Me.—Late Spr.-sum.—The flowers are very fragrant. 
11. A. serrulata Small. Shrub 7 m. tall or less, the twigs red-brown, strigose, 
ahd usually also finely villous, the Hea bip numerous Bertie: scales, 
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or with few sc eorgiana): leaf- 
ey eae to obovate or obovate- ‘elliptic, or "individua ally elliptic-oblanceo- 
late, 4—9 em. long, serrulate- -eiliate, shining, finely reticulate, glabrous, E 
i scattered hairs on the midrib beneath: calyx-lobes ovate or broader, long- 
ciliate, obtuse: corolla white; tube 3-3.5 cm. long, som on enlarged near the 
base, expanded near the limb, pras cadere lobes n eee shorter than 
the tube: capsule ovoid-ellipsoid, 1-1.5 em. long, glandular-setose.—Wet ham- 
mocks, con Plain, Fla. to La. and S. C.—Spr.-sum.—The. flo oven are very 
fragran 
12. A. arborescens Pursh. Shrub with tall stems, (or with low widely branched 
stems and small very. glaucous s leaves in A. arbore rescens Richardsonit) 1 or tree 
ing 6 m. tall, with the scales of | the winter-buds short-mucronate: leaf- 
m. : 
hirsute without; lobes acuminate, much shorter than the tube: anthers about 
mm. long: capsule ellipsoid- avoid. 1-2 a long, stout, bristly-glandular, 
abruptly narrowed at the apex.—(SMOOTH-AZALEA.)—Stream-banks and rocky 
o in p eid soil, various p N of Coastal Plain, Ga. to Ala., 
X e flowers are fragrant and have conspieuous red filaments. 
The dried e give off the fragrance is coumarin.—Late spr.-early sum. 
