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18. LEDUM, L. LABRADOR TEA. (sfijdov, ancient name of the 



Low shrubs, with alternate persistent leaves entire and more or less resinous 

 dotted, slightly fragrant when bruised. Flowers white, developed in early sum- 

 mer from separate and mostly terminal buds, their scales and bracts well imbri- 

 cated, thin and caducous. Stamens and the (persistent) style fully as long as the 

 petals. Stigma obscurely annulate. Pedicels slender, recurved in fruit. We have 

 all the species. 



* Leaves densely tomentose beneath, the wool soon ferrugineous, and the margins strongly revo- 

 lute : inflorescence all terminal. 



L. palustre, L. A span (in the arctic form) to 2 feet high : leaves linear (half to inch and 

 a half long): stamens 10: capsule short oval. Fl. Dan. t. 1031; Lotld. Cab. t. 560.- 

 Bogs, Newfoundland, Labrador, and through the arctic regions to Alaska and Aleutian 

 Islands. (N. Eu. & Asia.) 



Var. dilatatum, Wahl. : approaching the next, having broader leaves and some- 

 times long-oval capsules. N. W. Coast, Sitka, &c. 



L. latifolium, Ait. A foot to a yard high, erect: leaves oblong or linear-oblong (an 

 inch or two long), commonly half inch wide, very obtuse: stamens 5 to 7 : capsule oblong, 

 acutish. Lam. 111. t. 363; Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 464. L. Grvcnlanilicum,Iletz. Scand. L.jiulustre, 

 var. latifolium, Michx., &c. L. Catiadeiise, Lodd. Cab. t. 1049. Newfoundland and Lab- 

 rador (Greenland), through the wooded regions to Puget Sound, and south in the Atlantic 

 States to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. 

 * * Leaves glabrous both sides: inflorescence sometimes also lateral. Ledodentlrun, Nutt. 



L. glandulosum, Nutt. Shrub 2 to 6 feet high, stout: leaves oblong or oval, or ap- 

 proaching lanceolate (one or two inches long), pale or whitish and minutely resinous- 

 atomiferous beneath : inflorescence often compound and crowded : calyx 5-parted : capsules 

 oval, retuse. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. viii. 270; Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 450. Woods 

 and swamps, coast of California from Mendocino Co. northward, and through the Sierra 

 Nevada ; thence north and east to Br. Columbia and northern Rocky Mountains. 



19. BEJARIA, Mutis. (Written Befaria by the younger Linnaeus, &c., 

 but originally "Bejaria, Mutis, ex Zea, Annal." iii. 151. Zea was a pupil of 

 Mutis, and he declares that the name was given in honor of Bejar, professor of 

 Botany at Cadiz, and an intimate friend of Mutis.) All but the following species 

 tropical American. 



B. racemosa, Vent. Shrub 3 or 4 feet high, evergreen : branches sparsely hispid : leaves 

 alternate, sessile, oblong, coriaceous, glabrous, pale : flowers in pedunculate and sometimes 

 paniculate naked racemes terminating leafy branches : bracts and bractlets subulate, de- 

 ciduous : calyx obtusely 7-lobed: petals spatulate, white tinged with red, an inch long. 

 Hort. Cels, t. 51 ; Ell. Sk. i. 533. Befaria paniculata, Michx. Fl. i. 280, t. 26. Pine barrens, 

 Florida and Georgia near the coast : fl. summer. 



20. LEIOPHYLLUM, Pers. SAND MYRTLE, (shtog, smooth, yvllov, 

 leaf, from the smooth and shining foliage.) A single species, varying consider- 

 ably : flowering late in spring ; the coriaceous scales or bracts resembling reduced 

 leaves. 



L. buxifolium, Ell. Shrub resembling Dwarf Box in miniature, a span or two high, 

 very glabrous, much branched, thickly leafy : leaves alternate or opposite, oblong or oval, 

 veinless, a fourth to half inch long, slightly petioled : flowers profuse, in terminal umbelli- 

 form corymbs : corolla white or rose-color (3 or 4 lines broad) : anthers brown or purple. 

 L. buxifolium & L. serpi/Uifolium, DC. Prodr. vii. 730. L. t/u/mifo/iinn, Don, Syst. iii. 851. 

 Ledum buxifolium, Berg, in Act. Ups. 1777, t. 3, f. 1 ; Michx. Fl. i. 260 ; Lodd. Cab. t. 52. 

 L. thi/mifolium, Lam. 111. t. 363. Dendrium buxifolium, Desv. Jour. Bot. i. 36. Ammi/rsme 

 buxifolia, Pursh ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 531. Fischera buxifolia, Swartz in Act. Mosc. v. 16.- 

 Sandy pine barrens, New Jersey to Florida, and the mountains of Carolina. The state 



