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ANDROMEDA CASSINEFOLIA. SHINING 
~~ Ovat-LeEAvED ANDROMEDA,. 
oe ee ee 
Cla/s and Order. 
DeEcANDRIA MonoGyNIA. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. ovata, ore §-fido. Cap/. 5-locularis, © 
valvulis medio feptiferis. 7 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
ANDROMEDA ca/ffnefolia ; pedunculis aggregatis rameis 
axillaribufque, corollis globofo-campanulatis, 
foliis ovalibus fubferratis nitidis. 
ANDROMEDA caffinefolia, var. a. Ventenat Hort. Celf. 60. 
ANDROMEDA /peciofa, var. a nitida. Michaux Flor. Bor. 
= Am. 1. p. 256. 
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Whether this plant and the Anpromepa pulverulenta 
(No. 667) ought in reality to be confidered as diftin& {pecies, or 
merely varieties, may be doubted: they are certainly very 
nearly related, but this is a fmaller, lefs robuft fhrub, the 
leaves are not fo bluntly crenated, but rather ferrate, and quite _ 
entire at the bafe. Atthe time the pulverulenta was publifhed — 
we had not feen Micuaux’s work, or we might have been 
induced to have adopted his name. Yet his affertion that the 
mealy appearance on the leaves is certainly the effet of difeafe, 
may be rendered dubious by the confideration, that the pulve- 
rulenta is a much larger and every way more robuft plant, 
bearing flowers of greater fize and more in a bunch, than the 
| clini, -circumftances difficult to be attributed to any 
Our drawing was taken at Mr. Fraszr’s, in Sloane-Square, 
who we believe firft introduced it into this country. We 
received {pecimens alfo from Mefirs. Matcoim’s Nurfery, at 
Kenfington, Native of North-Carolina, about Fayette-Town 
and Wilmington. Flowersin June. 
