Tas. 6752, 
LEIOPHYLLUM BUXIFOLIUM. 
Native of the United States. 
Nat. Ord. Extcacrz.—Tribe RHopoRrEz. 
Genus Letopnyiium, Pers,; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 597.) 
LeE1oPHYLiuM burxifolium ; fruticulus glaberrimus, humilis, ramosissimus, ramis 
foliosis, foliis parvis breviter petiolatis oppositis alternisque ovatis v. oblongis 
integerrimis obtusis crasse coriaceis, floribus parvis in corymbos terminales 
dispositis albis, pedicellis gracilibus, alabastris roseis. 
L. buxifolium, H/liott Sketch Bot. Carolin. vol. i. p. 483; Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 
vol. iii. p. 48; DC. Prodr. vol. vii. p. 730; A. Gray Man. Bot. N. U. States, 
ed. 5, p. 301; Goodale, Wild Flowers of America, t. 49. 
L. thymifolium, G. Don Gen. Syst. p. 851. 
L, serpyllifolium, DC. 7. e. 
L, prostratum, Loud. Arboret. p. 1155. . 
Lepum buxifolium, Berg in Act. Petrop. 1777, p. 1, t. 3, f. 2. 
L. thymifolium, Lamk. Dict. vol. iii. p. 459 ; Z77. t. 363, f. 2. 
Denpaivm buxifolium, Desv. Journ. Bot. vol. i. p. 36. 
Fiscuera buxifolia, Swartz in Mem. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mose. vol. xiv. t. 1. 
AmMYERINE buxifolia, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. vol.i.p.301; Lindl. Bot, Reg. t.531. 
A. prostrata, Sweet Hort. Brit. ed. 1. 
A. Lyoni, Sweet . c. ed. 1830, p. 344. 
The subject of this plate is burthened with a complicated 
synonymy, partly because several generic names were 
proposed for it at no distant intervals, and partly because it 
inhabits two widely distant and dissimilar localities, whence 
it was inferred that the species from each must be different. 
It is certainly singular that a plant should be common in 
the sandy pine barrens of New Jersey and the mountain 
tops of Virginia, and found in no intermediate locality ; but 
such appears to be the case. It is an exceedingly pretty 
little shrub, closely allied to Ledwm, and known in the 
United States as the “Sand Myrtle.” It was introduced 
into England so long ago as 1736 by Peter Collinson, F.R.S., 
the Quaker and Linendraper, who was the chief encourager 
APRIL Ist, 1884. 
