Professor Swantz’s Observations on Menziesia. 377 
buaifolia, &c. that difficulty is certainly soon removed. It is also 
interesting to observe, how nature has varied the appearances in 
both these genera, as well as in many others. 
From such reasons I hope to determine with sufficient pro- 
priety the Andromeda cerulea to. be 
Mzwuzizst1A cerulea; 
foliis sparsis confertis linearibus obtusis cartilagineo-denticulatis, 
pedunculis terminalibus aggregatis unifloris, floribus decandris. 
Tas. XXX. Fig. A. 
Andromeda cerulea. Linn. Fl. Lapp. ed. Smith, p. 183. t. 1. 
SF. 5. Flor. Sveci 354. 
Andromeda taxifolia. Pallas Fl. Ross. t. 72. fig. 2. Flor. p. 103. 
Erica cerulea. Willd. Sp. Pi. ii. p. 393. 
Obs. Folia sparsa, conferta (imprimis versus apices ramorum) nec 
proprié terna dicenda, Willd.) planiuscula, utrinque sulco ex- 
arata, subtüs latiore albido villoso, margine minute denticulata, 
denticulis cartilagineis diaphanis. Pedunculi intense rubri, 
elongati, pube glandulifera undique hispiduli. Calyx extüs. 
glanduloso-pubescens. Flores nutantes. Anthere leviter apice 
bifidee, loculis foramine terminali obliqué hiantes. Stigma 
5-lobum. Capsule erectz, hirsutie glandulifera vestite, vetus- 
tiores muriculate. Receptaculum seminum 5-gonum 5-sulca- 
tum, angulis rugulosis. Semina oblonga, undato-venulosa, 
spadicea. cda d 
The other, or Andromeda Bryantha, I call... 
: =  Mzxzizsra Bryantha ; | 
foliis sparsis confertis oblongo-linearibus, - pedunculis apice co- 
rymbosis, floribus octandris.. | 
| Tan. 
