No. 5. ANDROMEDA. 41 



No. 5. 



ANDROMEDA ARBOREA 



English Name— SORREL TREK. 



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French Na^te — Andromeoier. 



German Name — Sauer Bausi. 



Officinal Name — Andromeda foHa, lignum, &c' 



Vulgar Names — Sour Tree, Sour Wood, Elk 

 Tree, Elk Wood, Sorrel Wood, Sour Leaf. 



Authorities — Linaseus, Clayton, Michaux Flora 

 and Sj^lva, Pursh, Elliot, Schoepf, W. Barton Flora 

 fm. 30, 



Genus Andromeda — Calix minute five parted* 

 Corolla ovate or cylindric, border five cleft. Stami- 

 na ten inclosed equal. One Pistil superior inclosed, 

 style pentagonal. Capsul five celled, five valved, 

 valves septiferous, many minute seeds. 



Species A» Arborea — Leaves petiolate, oblong 

 acuminate, smooth, beneath glaucous ; Panicle termi- 

 nal and loose, flowers racemose and lateraL Co- 

 rolla ovoid pubescent, anthers -linear mutic. 



DESCRIPTION— A small tree from fifteen to 

 forty feet high, seldom fifty to sixty. Branches fiy- 

 lindrical, slender. Bark^of thfi stem light brown, of 

 the old branches reddish, of the young shoots green. 



Leaves large, crowded, alternate and petiolate, 

 from three to six inches long, from one to two broad, 

 oblong, base acute, end acuminate, margin often Ufi- 



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