7O Rhodora [FEBRUARY 
more discriminating study than the plant has since been accorded. 
Link’s description was as follows: “A. glaucophylla. Foliis lineari- 
bus margine revolutis subtus albidis, floribus aggregatis terminalibus, 
pedunculis corolla ovata parum majoribus, antheris versus apicem 
aristatis. A. polifolia 8. Pursh am.i.291. Differt a praecedente cui 
similis pedunculorum magnitudine, qui in illa duplo longiores corolla 
et ultra. Folia subtus alba nec tomentosa. Glandulae inter stamina." ! 
Thus Link knew and pointed out most of the prominent features 
which separate the characteristic Andromedas of the two continents. 
Yet little attention seems to have been given to his work, although in 
1834 George Don, who divided the aggregate 4. Po/ifolia into many 
formal varieties, gave it partial recognition by attempting to keep 
Link's species as a variety apart from A. Polifolia, var. latifolia, 
Ait. Don was followed in this treatment by DeCandolle, but later 
authors have very generally treated the common American and 
European plants as one. That the two are 
clearly distinct species is sufficiently apparent 
from the foregoing discussion of the plants 
whose main characters are again briefly stated, 
and whose fruiting tips are shown in the 
figures kindly prepared by Mr. F. Schuyler 
Mathews. 
ANDROMEDA POLIFOLIA, L. (Fig. 1). Low 
shrub with elongate creeping base; stem sim- 
ple or with ascending branches, o.5 to 3 dm, 
Fig. : high: leaves coriaceous, linear to narrowly 
oblong, entire, either flat or strongly revolute, 
glabrous, at first generally whitened beneath with a paint-like coat, 
later often quite green: young branches and bud-scales usually not 
glaucous: pedicels filiform, straightish, 2 to 4 times exceeding the 
nodding flower and erect fruit: corolla globose-urceolate: calyx with 
pale or usually reddish slightly ascending lobes: capsule brown or 
reddish, obovoid or subglobose, as high as broad.— Sp. 393 (1753), 
& Fl. Lap. 131, t. 1, fig. 2; Qeder, Fl. Dan. i. 11, t. 54; Pallas, FI. 
Ross. i. pt. 2, 53, t. 71; Hook. Fl Bor.-Am. ii. 38, in part; Reich. 
Ic. Fl. Germ. xvii. 8o, t. 110, fig. 1; Thomé, Fl. Deutschl. iv. 4, t. 
463. Var. media, Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. 68 (1789); G. Don, Gen. Syst. 
lLink, Enum. i. 394. 
