376 Professor Swartz’s Observations on Menziesia. 
From equally urgent reasons I take the liberty to indicate a 
similarity of character in two other plants, and to propose their 
union with the genus Menziesia as real species. "These are the 
Andromeda cerulea of Linnzeus, and the Andromeda Bryantha of 
Pallas. As for the first-mentioned, the discovery of its particular 
fruit is by no means new, as the celebrated author of the Flora 
Britannica in his new edition of the Linnean Flora Lapponica has 
already observed the carpological difference of this plant from 
the other species of Andromeda; and at that time thought 
proper to refer the same to Erica, where also Professor Willde- 
now in his Spec. Plant. has enlisted it, as well as the Andromeda 
Bryantha. It is, however, now my intention to prove the pro- 
priety of an alteration in this arrangement. 
That the capsule of Andromeda cerulea by its valve iooi: 
loculum proprium constituentes (Juss.) shows its relationship:to the 
Rhododendra, cannot escape an intelligent observer. This cir- 
cumstance added to a comparison with the partes fructificantes of — 
Menziesia puts, I think, its near affinity with that genus out of 
doubt. The calyx of the former is, it is true, repandus but mo- 
nophyllus ; in the latter also consisting of one leaf, though deeply 
divided into 5laciniz. The form of the corolla, its deciduous. 
nature, the znsertio staminum, the anthere, the stigma lobatum, all 
correspond. The number only differs; which however cannot be- 
of any particular weight, since we find that the Andromeda Bry- 
antha, in so many respects resembling the former, even ca asia 
approaches the Menziesia, as being octandrous. ` 
Upon the whole, there is nothing but the habit: which at first 
sight shows any difference. But considering the very great dis-- 
similarity really existing between the species of Andromeda, for 
instance between A. rn and A. mariana, or A. tetragona and. 
buaifolia,. 
