Part 1, 1914] ERICACEAE 49 
1. Biltia Vaseyi (A. Gray) Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 884. 1903. 
Rhododendron Vaseyi A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 15: 48, 1879. 
Azalea Vaseyi Rehder, MOl!. Deuts. Gartn.-Zeit. 14: 332. 1899. 
An asymmetric shrub 5 m. tall or less, with slender branches and usually sparingly 
pubescent twigs; leaf-blades elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 6-15 em. long, thick-membranous, 
acuminate at both ends, ciliate, with a prominent midrib beneath, undulate or very shallowly 
toothed; pedicels somewhat glandular; calyx flat, the edge glandular-erose; corolla pale rose- 
colored, 2.5~3 em. long, the upper lobes with yellow-orange or reddish-orange spots, all rounded; 
stamens 7 or sometimes 5; style long-exserted; capsules narrowly oblong-ovoid, 1-14 mm. long, 
glandular-pubescent. 
c ie LOCALITY: Balsam Mountains, seven miles southwest of Webster, Jackson County, North 
arolina. 
DISTRIBUTION: Mountain slopes and summits, North Carolina. 
InLustRaAtIoNS: Garden & Forest 1: f. 60; Gard. Chron. III. 20:7. 14; Meehan’s Mo. 7: pl. 7. 
13. MENZIESIA Smith, Pl. Ic. Ined. p]. 56. 1791. 
Shrubs with erect or spreading brauches and variously pubescent foliage. Leaves alter- 
nate, approximate on the twigs, deciduous; blades broad, thin, often strigose, ciliate, entire or 
obscurely toothed, gland-tipped, short-petioled. Flowers appearing with the leaves, in clusters 
terminating the branches, nodding, the pedicels becoming erect in fruit. Calyx small, flat or 
saucer-shaped, persistent, circular or shallowly lobed; lobes 4, bristly ciliate. Corolla white, My 
pink, purplish, or greenish, globular-ovoid, globular-urceolate, campanulate, or cylindraceous; : ia) 
tube stout, often swollen; limb very small, the lobes rounded, much shorter than the tube, often \ Z 
erect. Stamens 8, included; filaments subulate, sometimes pubescent at the base; anthers 
narrow, linear to linear-sagittate. Ovary 4-celled, obscurely lobed, glabrous or sparingly 
pubescent, commonly ovoid; style columnar or subulate, included; stigma truncate. Capsule 
slightly elongate, ovoid, oval, or obovoid, firm, rather thick-walled, 4-valved. Seeds nu- %) 
merous, abruptly pointed or tailed. 
Type species, Menziesia ferruginea Smith. 
Seeds short (1-1.5 mm.), abruptly pointed: species of the Alleghenies. 1. M. pilose. 
Seeds:long, (2-2.5 mm.), tailed; species of northwestern North America. \ 
Filaments glabrous; calyx ciliate with short gland-tipped hairs; corolla of an * { 
ovoid type. ; 2. M. glabella. 7 
Filaments pubescent; calyx ciliate with long, often glandless hairs; corolla of 
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Menziesia globularis Salisb. Parad. Lond. pl. 44. 1806. 
- Menziesia ferruginea B Sims, Bot. Mag. pl. 1571. 1813. 
An erect or somewhat spreading shrub 2 m. tall or less, with loosely pubescent twigs; 
leaf-blades elliptic to oval or elliptic-oblanceolate, 1.5-5 cm. long, acute or abruptly gland- 
tipped, strigose, especially above, glaucous or glaucescent beneath, ciliate, short-petioled; 
pedicels glandular-pubescent; calyx circular or slightly angled, glandular-ciliate; corolla white 
to pink, ovoid or globular-ovoid to campanulate-ovoid, 7-8 mm. long, the lobes mostly half- 
orbicular; stamens 5-6 mm. long, the filaments glabrous; capsules ovoid, 5-6 mm. long, with 
rather rigid gland-tipped hairs; seeds 1-1.5 mm. long. 
sem once Aho he ge of he Catron Rives, North Cooly gral gf Lam. Lab), 
a PY aaa Salisb. Parad. Lond. pl. 44; Bot. Mag. pl. 1571; Britt. & Brown/TIIl. Fl. f. 2752; 
2. Menziesia glabella A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. 2!: 39. 1878. 
Menziesia globulavis Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2:41. 1834. Not M. globularis Salisb. 1806. 
An erect shrub with puberulent twigs; leaf-blades obovate to oblong-obovate or oval- 
obovate, 2-5 em. long, mostly obtuse or rounded at the apex and minutely gland-tipped, ser- 
rulate-crenate and minutely glandular-ciliate, glabrous or nearly so and glaucous beneath, 
bright-green and sparingly strigose above, short-petioled, the petioles puberulent; pedicels 
a cylindraceous type. 3. M. ferruginec. 
1. Menziesia pilosa (Michx.) Pers. Syn. Pl. 1: 420. 1805. 
Azalea pilosa Michx. Jour. Hist. Nat. 1:410. 1792. 
Menziesia Smithii Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 235. 1803. 
