170 WOODY PLANTS 



One lacking. Leaves alternate, lanceolate -oblong. Leaf-scars 

 small, half-round; bundle-trace 1; stipule- scars none. Fruit a 

 globose capsule, present in the winter along with the terminal and 

 axillary racemes or panicles of next season's flowers. 



1. P. floribunda (Pursh) B. and H. Mountain Fetterbush. 

 (Andromeda floribunda Pursh). Erect shrubs to 2 m. high; leaves 

 elliptic-ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 3-8 cm. long, acute or acumi- 

 nate, crenate-serrulate, ciliate; capsule globose-ovoid, 5-6 mm. 

 long. Moist soil, in the Alleghenies, West Virginia to Georgia 

 (Fig. 255). 



LYONIA Nutt. (Ericaceae) 



Deciduous or evergreen shrubs. Twigs slender, somewhat 

 3-sided; pith round. Buds solitary, sessile, oblong, appressed, 

 with 2 visible scales. Leaf- scars alternate, small, half-round; 

 bundle-trace 1; stipule-scars none. Fruit a globular capsule per- 

 sistent in winter. 



1. L, ligustrina (L. ) DC. Maleberry . Deciduous much- 

 branched shrub to 4 m. tall; twigs puberulent or glabrous; capsule 

 about 3 mm. in diameter. Usually in moist thickets, Florida to 

 TexcS, north to New England, Kentucky and Oklahoma (Fig. 256). 



LEUCOTHOE D. Don (Ericaceae) 



Evergreen or deciduous shrubs. Twigs rather slender, sub- 

 terete; pith roundish or somewhat 3-sided, continuous. Buds small, 

 solitary, sessile, globose or ovoid, with 3 or 4 exposed scales, the 

 end-bud lacking. Leaf-scars alternate, small, crescent-shaped or 

 half-round; bundle-trace 1; stipule-scars lacking. Capsules small, 

 depressed-globose, often present in winter. 



a. Leaves evergreen 1. L. editorum 



a. Leaves deciduous 



b. Capsules deeply 5-lobed; 



racemes curved 2. L. recurva 



b. Capsules not lobed; 



racemes straight 3. L. racemosa 



1. L. editorum (Fernald and Schub. ) Dog-Hobble. Switch- 

 Ivy. (L. catesbaei Gray). Shrub to 2 m. high, with loosely spread- 

 ing branches; leaves evergreen, ovate-lanceolate, pointed, closely 

 serrulate, up to 1. 5 dm. long. Moist woods, along the mountains 

 from Virginia to Georgia. 



