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anthesis, about twice as long as the leaves in fruit; calyx 7-8 mm. wide, the lobes oval or 
oblong, obtuse; corolla 6-7 mm. long, the lobes much longer than the tube, suborbicular; 
stamens 2.5-3 mm. long; capsules subglobose, 4-5 mm. long. 
Tyre Locatity: Eastern Siberia. 
-Distrisution: Alaska to Washington; also from eastern Siberia to northern Japan 
ILLusTRATIONS: Pall. Fl. Ross. pl. 74, f. 2; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. #1. 131; Harriman Alaska Exp. 
1: 32; Proc. Wash. Acad. Sci. 3: f. 62. . 
24. ANDROMEDA L. Sp. Pl. 393. 1753. 
Shrubs with low ‘branching stems. Leaves alternate, persistent; blades broad or narrow, 
entire, revolute, sessile or nearly so. Flowers perfect, in cluster-like racemes or panicles. 
Calyx stellate; lobes 5, broad, about as long as the tube or longer. Corolla urceolate, white 
or pink, the lobes short and broad, recurved. Stamens 10, included; filaments short, often 
lanceolate, pubescent, unappendaged; anthers oval, shorter than the filaments, each sac with 
1 or 2 slender awns. Ovary 5-celled, globular or depressed, slightly lobed; style slender- 
columnar; stigma minute, obscurely lobed. Capsule slightly elongate or slightly depressed, 
5-valved, septicidal, the sutures not thickened. 
Types species, Andromeda Polifolia L. 
Leaf-blades glaucous beneath; pedicels several times as long as the corolla or 
capsule, 1. A. Polifolia. 
Leaf-blades canescent beneath; pedicels once or twice as long as the corolla or 
capsule. 2. A. canescens, 
1. Andromeda Polifolia L. Sp. Pl. 393. 1753. 
Andromeda glaucophylla Link, Enum. 1: 394, 1821. 
A low shrub with branching stems arising from creeping or horizontal rootstocks; leaf- 
blades oblong to linear, or rarely oval, mostly 1-3 cm. long, usually acute, often strongly 
revolute, bright-green above, glaucous beneath, glabrous; flowers in erect lax clusters on 
erect branchlets; pedicels long, mostly 1-2 cm. long, slender, straight; calyx 4-5 mm. wide, 
the lobes ovate to triangular, acute or acutish, usually reddish or pale, and ascending; corolla 
white or pink, 6-7 mm. long; capsules globose to obovoid, in lax clusters. 
‘TYPE LocaLity: Europe. 
Distrrisution: Arctic America southward to Quebec, the Great Lake region, and Idaho. 
Also in northern Europe and Asia. 
Intustrrations: L. Fl. Lapp. pl. 1; Fl. Dan. pl. 54; Pall. Fl. Ross. pl. 71; Schkuhr, Handb. 
pl. 118; Lam. Tab. Encyc. pl. 365; Sv. Bot. pl. 445; Sturm, Fl. Deuts. 20: pl. 94; Hayne, Arzn.- 
Gew. 3: pl. 22; Bot. Cab. ol. 1714; Baxter, Brit. Bot. 5: #1. 361; Reichenb. Fl. Germ. pl. 1161; Britt. 
& Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2767; ed. 2. f. 3241; Rob. & Fern. Man. f. 844. 
2. Andromeda canescens Small, sp. nov. 
?Andromeda Polifolia latifolia Lodd. Bot. Cab. pl. 546. 1821. 
A shrub similar to A. Polifolia in habit; leaf-blades usually relatively narrower and more 
revolute, mostly 2-5 cm. long, acute, bright-green above, closely fine-canescent beneath; 
flowers in nodding rather dense clusters on curved branchlets; pedicels short, mostly less than 
1 em. long, stout, curved; calyx 3-4 mm. wide, the lobes usually triangular, acute, usually 
whitish and spreading; corolla pink or pinkish, 4-6 mm. long; capsules spheroidal, in dense 
clusters. 
Type collected at Chilson Lake, New York, August 30, 1900, NV. L. & E. G. Britton (herb. N. 
Y. Bot. Gard.). : . p 
DISTRIBUTION: Newfoundland and Labrador to Manitoba, New Jersey, Indiana, and Minne- 
Inuusrrations: Bot. Cab. pl. 546 (2); Am. Jour. Sci. 3: pl. 1 (?); Rob. & Fern. Man. f. 845 
(as A. glaucophylia). 
25. ZENOBIA D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 17: 158. 1834. 
Shrubs with glabrous or glaucous foliage, the branches terete, erect or nearly so. Leaves 
alternate, deciduous; blades usually broad, entire or shallowly and irregularly toothed, reticu- 
late, flat or nearly so. Flowers perfect, in axillary or lateral clusters borne on an elongate, 
sometimes virgate rachis. Calyx persistent; lobes 5, manifestly united at the base, broad, 
sota. 
