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pulverulent with fine white hairs; the young branches and the scaly 
buds are conspicuously glaucous; the flowers are borne on thicker 
curving pedicels as long or barely twice as long as the corolla; the 
calyx-lobes are whitish; and the very glaucous almost baccate cap- 
sule is depressed and turban-shaped, much broader than high. 
Although these important differences between the Eurasian Andro- 
meda Polifolia and its commoner American representative have so 
long been quite overlooked by American botanists, they were not 
unnoticed by early students of our flora, To Linnaeus, apparently, 
the American plant was quite unknown, and his 4. /o/ifolia, based 
entirely upon European descriptions and specimens, is fortunately 
freed from any possible confusion with our plant. 
The first botanist to distinguish our common species was 
apparently L’Heritier de Brutelle who seems to have characterized 
and illustrated as “ Andromeda Polifolia latifolia” the American plant. 
The special volume in which L’Heritier discussed this plant was 
never published though the manuscript and plate were undoubtedly 
seen by Aiton, who in 1789 took up and described the plant under 
L’Heritier’s name. Aiton treated Andromeda Polifolia as embracing 
three varieties as follows: * 
Polifolia. 3. A pedunculis aggregatis, corollis ovatis, foliis alternis 
lanceolatis revolutis. Sf. 4 564. 
latifolia. a foliis oblongis, corollis ovatis incarnatis, laciniis caly- 
cinis patentibus ovatis albis: interdum apice rubi- 
cundis. 
Andromeda polifolia latifolia. Z’ Herit. stirp. nov. tom. 
2. tab. 11. 
Broad-leav'd Marsh Andromeda. 
media. B folis lanceolatis, corollis oblongo-ovatis, rubicundis, 
laciniis calycinis magis erectis. : 
Common Marsh Andromeda, or Wild Rosemary. 
angusti. y foliis lanceolatolinearibus, laciniis calycinis oblongis 
folia. rubris. 
Narrow-leav'd Marsh Andromeda. 
Nat. a. of North America; 8. of Britain; and y. of 
Newfoundland and Labrador. 
Fi. May September. H.h: 
Aiton, Hort. Kew. ii. 68. 
