Genus 15. 



HEATH FAMILY. 



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Swamp Eubotrys. Fig. 3240. 



2. Eubotrys racemosa (L.) Nutt. 



Andromeda racemosa L. Sp. PI. 394. 1753. 



E. racemosa Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8 : 269. 



1843- 

 Leucotho'e racemosa A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 252. 1856. 



A shrub, 5-i2 high, with erect or divergent 

 branches, terminal racemes, and glabrous or 

 puberulent twigs. Leaves oblong to ovate, mostly 

 acute at each end, thin, deciduous, short-petioled, 

 glabrous, or with some short hairs above, pubes- 

 cent, at least on the veins beneath, serrulate, i'-3' 

 long, i'-i' wide ; racemes solitary or clustered ; 

 flowers appearing w ith or before the leaves ; caly.N 

 2-bracteolate at the base, the bractlets firm, per- 

 sistent; sepals much imbricated; pedicels about i" 

 long, jointed with the rachis; corolla nearly cylin- 

 dric, 3"-4" long; anther-sacs 2-awned; style 

 slender ; stigma capitate ; capsule slightly grooved, 

 li" in diameter, about equalling the sepals or a 

 little longer ; seeds smooth, wingless. 



In swamps and moist thickets, Massachusetts to 

 Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Florida and Louisiana, 

 mostly near the coast. White ozier or pepper-bush. 

 April-.Tune. 



Leucothoe elongata Small, of the Southern States, 

 is of this genus, differing from the preceding species 

 in its relatively longer sepals ; it is recorded as far 

 north as Virginia. 



16. ANDROMEDA L. Sp. PL 393. 1753. 



A glabrous branching or rarely simple shrub. Leaves coriaceous, linear or oblong, entire, 

 revolute-margined, evergreen, short-petioled, white-glaucous beneath. Flowers small, white, 

 drooping, in terminal umbels. Calyx deeply S-parted, persistent, the lobes not imbricated. 

 Corolla globose-urceolate, 5-toothed, the teeth recurved'. Stamens 10, included; filaments 

 bearded; anthers attached to the filaments at about the middle, ovate, obtuse, the sacs opening 

 by large terminal pores, each with an ascending awn. Disk lo-lobed. Ovary 5-celled ; style 

 columnar ; stigma simple ; ovules numerous. Capsule subglobose, 5-angled, loculicidally 

 5-valved, many-seeded, the top intruded. Seeds oval, spreading in all directions, the testa 

 smooth, coriaceous, shining. [Named for Andromeda of mythology.] 



A monotypic genus of the north temperature and subarctic zone. 



I. Andromeda Polifolia L. Wild Rosemary. 

 Marsh Holy Rose. Moorwort. Fig. 3241. 



Andromeda Polifolia L. Sp. PI. 393. 1753. 



A. glaucopkylla Link. Enum. Hort. Berol. i : 394. 1821. 



A shrub, i-3 hi.gh, usually little branched, the foli- 

 age acid. Leaves linear, linear-oblong or lanceolate- 

 oblong, sometimes slightly spatulate, acute or obtusish, 

 mucronulate, narrowed at the base, dark green above, 

 prominently white-glaucous beneath, i'-2i' long. 2"-4" 

 wide, the margins strongly revolute ; petioles about i" 

 long; umbels few-flow-ered. terminal; bracts small, 

 ovate, persistent : pedicels 4"-6" long, straight or some- 

 w hat curved ; calyx-lobes triangular-ovate, acute ; corolla 

 2"-3" in diameter ; capsule about 2" in diameter, about 

 as long as the persistent style. 



In bogs, Labrador and Newfoundland through arctic 

 America to Alaska, south to northern New Jersey. Penn- 

 sylvania, Michigan and British Columbia. Also in northern 

 Europe and Asia. Consists of several races, the southern 

 (A. glancophylla) with shorter and more curved pedicels. 

 Marsh-rosemary. May-June. 



17. PIERIS D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Journ. 17: 159. 1834. 



fPoRTUNA Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. H. 8: 268. 1843.] 



Shrubs with evergreen serrulate leaves, and terminal or axillary, often panicled racemes 



of small white flowers, the pedicels subtended by small persistent bracts and 1-2-bracteolate. 



Calyx s-cleft. the lobes or sepals valvate. Corolla ovoid-urceolate, 5-toothed. the teeth little 



spreading. Stamens 10; filaments smooth, not appendaged ; anthers oblong, the sacs dehiscent 



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