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Menziesia ferruginea (0). Carolina 



Menziesia. 



OcTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Charatler. 



Cal. l-phyllus. Cor. l-petala. Filamenta receptaculo inferta. 

 Cap/, fupera, quadrilocularis ; diffipimenta e marginibus inflexis 

 valvularum. 



Specific CharaEler and Synonyms. 



MENZIESIA ferruginea s floribus foliifque terminalibus fafci- 

 culatis obovato-lanceolatis planis fubtus lsevibus. Jujfieu in 

 Annaies du Muf. a" Hi/1. Nat. t. 1. ^.55. Perfoon Synopf. 1. 

 P- 419. 



MENZIESIA ferruginea. Smith Ic. inedit. 56*. Willd. Sp. PI 

 2 \P- 355- Lam. III. t. 285. 



(<*•) foliis obovato-lanceolatis. 



((3.) foliis ovatis obtufioribus, corollae tubo globofo. 



MENZIESIA ghbularis. Salijb. Parad. Lond. 44. Hort. Kew. 

 edit. alt. v. 2. p. 360. 



The genus Menziesia was firft eftablifhed by Dr. Smith, 

 |B his Icones hatlenus inedita^ in commemoration of our worthy 

 friend, Mr. Archibald Menzies, the firft difcoverer of the 

 P^nt, on the north-weft coaft of America. Michaux found 

 what he confidered to be the fame fpecies in Carolina and 

 Georgia, which Mr. Salisbury, in the Paradifus Londinenfis, 

 has given as diftincl, under the name of Menziesia ghbularis. 

 tfpon a careful examination of fpecimens from both countries, 

 we cannot find any characters fufficient to found a fpecific 

 diftinaion upon. 



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