LEUCOTHOE 171 



2. L_. recurva (Buckley) Gray. Fetterbush. A widely -branched 

 deciduous shrub, 0, 8-3 m. high; capsules 4 mm. in. diameter, 

 deeply 5-lobed; racemes curved. Dry soil, mountains from Vir- 

 ginia and West Virginia to Alabama (Fig. 257), 



3. L. racemosa (L. ) Gray. Fetterbush. Shrub up to 4 m. 

 high, with ascending branches; capsules scarcely lobed; racemes 

 straight. Moist thickets, mostly on the coastal plain, Florida to 

 Louisiana, north to Massachusetts, 



OXYDENDRUM DC. (Ericaceae) 



Small or medium-sized deciduous tree. Twigs slender, zig- 

 zag; pith pale, continuous. Buds rather small, conical-globose, 

 solitary, sessile, with about 6 scales; terminal bud lacking. Leaf- 

 scars alternate, small, half-round; bundle-trace 1, curved; 

 stipule-scars none. Small capsules (in one-sided racemes clustered 

 in panicles) present in winter, 



1. O. arboreum (L. ) DC. Sourwood. A tree to 25 m. high but 

 usually much smaller; bark deeply fissured; twigs glabrous or 

 sparingly puberulous, olive or bright red; capsule 5 mm. long. 

 Acid woods, Florida to Louisiana, north to Pennsylvania and Indi- 

 ana (Fig. 258). 



CHAMAEDAPHNE Moench. (Ericaceae) 



Evergreen bog shrub. Twigs slender, roundish, at first 

 puberulent and scurfy, then with shredding gray bark, finally 

 smooth and deep red-brown; pith small, roundish, continuous. 

 Buds solitary, sessile, small, globose, with about 3 exposed scales. 

 Leaves simple, alternate, entire, scurfy beneath. Leaf-scars mi- 

 nute, crescent-shaped; bundle-trace 1; stipule-scars lacking. 

 Capsule small, depressed-globose, present in winter. 



1. C. calyculata (L. ) Moench. Leatherleaf. Shrub up to 1 m. 

 high or taller; leaves evergreen, coriaceous, scurfy, especially 

 beneath, 2. 5-5 cm. long. Bogs, Labrador to Alaska, south to 

 Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Alberta, and British Columbia; also in 

 Eurasia (Fig. 259). 



EPIGAEA L. (Ericaceae) 



Evergreen prostrate and trailing scarcely shrubby plants with 

 exfoliating bark. Twigs slender; pith moderate, rounded, continu- 

 ous. Buds solitary or multiple, hairy. Leaves alternate, elliptic- 

 ovate, cordate, entire, ciliate, reticulate. 



