In sandy or light soils in and on the edge of bogs, in seepage areas, along 

 wooded streams and in pine-hardwood flats in e. Okla. (Waterfall) and e. Tex., 

 Mar-May; from Fla. to Tex., n. to Del., Md. and O. 



This species includes those plants from our area that have previously been 

 placed in R. nudiftonim (L.) Torr. (Azalea nudiflora L.). The name, var. 

 subglabrum Rehd., has been assigned to those plants with glabrous or glabrescent 

 leaves. 



4. Rhododendron prinophyllum (Small) Millais. Honeysuckle, early-azalea. 



Shrub to about 3 m. high; branchlets finely pubescent and more or less strigose 

 and glandular-stipitate; buds grayish-pubescent; leaves usually narrowly oblanceo- 

 late to elliptic, sometimes obovate, more or less dull-bluish-green in color, to 

 9 cm. long, obtuse to acute or short-acuminate, grayish-pubescent or short-pilose 

 beneath, more or less pilose above; flowers produced with the leaves, very 

 fragrant; pedicels with stipitate glands among the villosity; calyx lobes ovate, rarely 

 1 mm. long, glandular-ciliate; corolla glandular-stipitate and villous, bright-pink 

 varying to whitish or with the tube rose-color; corolla tube 1.5-2 cm. long, 

 gradually dilated upward, more or less glandular-stipitate on outside, pubescent 

 inside, about equaling the glandless lobes; filaments mostly about twice the length 

 of the corolla tube; style 4-5 cm. long, commonly purplish above base; capsule 

 dark-brown, oblong-ellipsoid, 1.5-2 cm. long, slightly puberulous and somewhat 

 glandular. 



In sandy or light soils usually in moist or wet situations in swamps, along 

 wooded streams and in bog areas in s.e. Tex., late Feb.-May; from Me. to Que., 

 s. and s.w. to Tenn., Mo. and Tex. 



3. Leucothoe D. Don Fetter-bush. Leucothoe 

 About 50 species mostly in the New World with several in eastern Asia. 



1. Leucothoe racemosa (L.) Gray. Fig. 605. 



Deciduous shrub to 4 m. high, with ascending branches; leaves alternate, 

 short-petioled, oblong to oblanceolate or obovate, acute to short-acuminate, 

 finely serrulate, to 8 cm. long, somewhat pubescent when young; racemes mostly 

 solitary, somewhat secund, ascending or divergent, mostly terminating leafless 

 branches of the previous year, to 7 cm. long; pedicels 2-3 mm. long; flowers white, 

 5-merous, scaly-bracted; sepals ovate-lanceolate, ciliate, about 3 mm. long, persis- 

 tent, imbricated in bud; corolla 7-9 mm. long, tubular, constricted at throat, 

 the short lobes spreading; stamens 10; anther-cells each 2-awned; capsules 

 depressed-globose, not lobed, 2.5-3 mm. long, 3-4 mm. thick, the style long- 

 persistent, the sutures not thickened; seeds angled and wingless. L. elongata Small. 



Moist thickets, seepage areas, swamp forests and sunny lake shores, rare in 

 s.e. Tex. (Tyler Co.), spring-fall; from Tex. to Fla., n. to Mass., s.e. N.Y. and 

 e. Pa. 



4. Lyonia Nutt. 



Shrubs or rarely arborescent, deciduous or evergreen; leaves alternate, herb- 

 aceous to coriaceous, entire or serrulate; flowers white to rose-color, 5-merous, 

 long-pedicellate, in fascicles, racemes or panicles; calyx lobes valvate; corolla 

 cylindric-ovoid to globose-urceolate, with short lobes; stamens 10; filaments 

 basally dilated, hairy and often toothed or appendaged; anthers ovate to oblong, 

 awnless, opening by 2 terminal pores; capsule globose to ovoid, scarcely 5-angled, 

 the dorsal sutures with a thickened ridge that usually divides at dehiscence of the 

 capsule. 



About 30 species in Asia and the New World. 

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