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Rhododendron Lapponicum. Lapland 

 Rhododendron. 



Class and Order. 

 Pentandria Monogynia. 



( Nat. Ord. — Erice^. ) 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. infundibuliformis 5-lobus. Stam. 

 5 — 10 declinata : antheris apice biporosis. Capsula 5-locu- 

 laris, 5-valvis, ab apice dehiscens, valvarum marginibus in- 

 flexis dissepimenta formantibus : Receptaculum centrale 

 5-angulare. Semina membrana involuta. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Rhododendron * Lapponicum ; fruticosum, ramosum, pro- 

 cumbens, ram is divaricatis, tloribus umbellatis 5 — 8- 

 andris, corollis rotato-infundibuliformibus, foliis ob- 

 longis obtusis rigidis foveolato-punctatis subtus disco- 

 loribus lepidotis marginibus reflexis. 



Rhododendron Lapponicum. fVahl. Ft. Suec. p. 249. 

 Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2. p. 293. Graham, in Ed. N. 

 Phil. Journ. Oct. 1830. 



Azalea lapponica. Linn. FL Suec. p. 64. Sp. PL v. I. p. 

 214. FL Lapp. (ed. Smith,) p. 59. t. 6.f. 1. Pall. FL 

 Ross. v. 2. p. 52. t. 70. / 1. Fl. Dan. v. 6. t. 906. 

 Willd. Sp. PL v.l.p. 832. Pers. St/n. PL v. I. p. 212. 



Descr. An evergreen, procumbent shrub, about six 

 inches long ; branches at length divaricated, round, grey, 

 when young red, obscurely pubescent, warted. Leaves 



three 



* From po&r, a rose, and hityu, a tree, from the usual colour of the flowers 

 °f these shrubby plants. 



