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ERICACEAE. 



Vol. II. 



I. Menziesia pilosa (Michx.) Pers. Allegliany 

 AJenzicsia. JMiiinic-bu.sh. l'"ig. 3224. 



A::alca pilosa Michx. in Lam. Journ, Nat. Hist, i : 410. 1792. 

 Mcnciesia pilosa Pcrs. Syn. i : 420. 1805. 

 Menziesia globularis Salisb. Parad. Lond. 44. 1806. 



A shrub, 2-6 high, the twigs more or less chaffy and with 

 .stiff hairs. Leaves oval, oblong or obovate, thin, obtuse or 

 acutish and glandular-mucronulate at the apex, narrowed at 

 tlie base, rough-hairy above, pale glaucescent and sometimes 

 chaffy on the veins beneath, l'-2' long, the margins ciliate; 

 petioles 2"-5" long, pubescent ; flowers few in the umbels, 

 drooping; pedicels filiform, glandular, J'-l' long; calyx-lobes 

 short and broad, hirsute-ciUate ; corolla urn-shaped or globose- 

 ovoid, 2"-3" long ; filaments glabrous ; capsule ovoid, about 2" 

 high, erect, glandular-bristly; seeds pointed at each end. 

 In mountain woods, Pennsylvania to Georgia. May-June. 



2. Menziesia glabella A. Gray. Smooth ^lenziesia. 

 Fig- 3225- 



Menziesia glabella A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2 : Part i, 39. 1878. 



Similar to the preceding species, the twigs less chaffy. 

 Leaves obovate, obtuse and glandular-mucronulate at the apex, 

 pale, glaucous and glabrous or very nearly so beneath, spar- 

 ingly pubescent above, 9"-i8" long, the margins ciliolate ; 

 flowers 1-5 in the umbels, spreading, becoming erect ; pedicels 

 i'-i' long, glandular; calyx-lobes short and broad, ciliate and 

 pubescent; corolla urn-shaped, about 2" long; filaments pubes- 

 cent below ; capsule oblong or obovoid, erect, about 2" high, 

 glabrous ; seeds long-appendaged at each end 



Minnesota Point, Lake Superior, west to Montana, Oregon and 

 British Columbia. May-.Tune. 



6. DENDRIUM Desv. Journ. Bot. (II.) i: 36. 1813. 

 [Leiophyllum Pers. Syn. i : 477. 1805. Not Ehrh. 1780.] 



A glabrous evergreen shrub, with coriaceous entire small mostly opposite leaves, and 

 numerous small white or pinkish flowers, in terminal corymbs. Bud-scales coriaceous, per- 

 sistent. Calyx S-parted, the segments rigid, oblong-lanceolate, acute, persistent. Petals 5. 

 sessile, ovate to obovate, spreading. Stamens ic, exserted ; filaments filiform, glabrous; 

 anthers small, globose-didymous, attached by their backs to the filaments, awnless, the sacs 

 opening longitudinally. Disk lO-lobed. Ovary 2-s-celled; ovules numerous; style slender, 

 straight ; stigma simple, truncate. Capsule ovoid, 2-S-valved from the top. [Greek, a tree.] 



Three species, of eastern North America, the following typical. 



I. Dendrium buxifolium (Berg.) Desv. Sand 

 Alyrtle. Sleek-leaf. Fig. 3226. 



Ledum buxifolium Berg. .^ct. Upsal. 1777: pi. 3- f. I 1777. 

 Dendrium buxifolium Desv. Journ. Bot. (II) I: 36. 1813. 

 Leiophyllum buxifolium Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. i : 483. 1819-20. 



A low shrub with box-like foliage, widely branching, 

 4'-i8' high. Leaves crowded, oblong or oval, thick, obtuse, 

 dark green and shining above, lighter and black-dotted 

 beneath, short-petioled, somewhat revolute-margined, 3"-7" 

 long, the midrib proininent. the lateral veins obscure: 

 flowers about 2" broad, several or numerous in short 

 coryinbs ; anthers purple ; pedicels filiform, 2"-$" long in 

 fruit; capsule acute, slightly over i" higli, glabrous, puberu- 

 lent, or roughened with short processes. 



In sandy pine-barrens. New Jersey to Florida. April-June. 



