A«ALEA» PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 235 



A. procumbens L, Fl. Lapp. 9. t. 6. f. 2. D, D on, 

 K c. Pursh FL I. p. 154. M uhl. Cat. p. 20. Loise- 

 LEURiA procumbens D e svaux I. c. Roe m. <$/• S c hult. 

 IV. p. 353. 



A small evergreen shrub. Siems cespitose, 3 — 4 inches long, 

 blanched, procumbent, rigid. Leaves opposite, elliptical, very 

 smooth and entire, coriaceous ; margin revolute. Flowers in 

 small terminal umbels, or corymbs; fiedicels short. Calyx 

 red ; segments lanceolate. Corolla bright rose-coloured, 

 small, as long again as the calyx ; segments a little unequal, 

 oblong. Siemens inserted into the base of the corolla ; Jilw 

 ments flat, smooth ; anthers 2-celled, subrotund, opening in- 

 ternally their whole length. Style rather shorter than the sta- 

 mens, persistent ; stigma capitate. Cafisule ovate ; margin of 

 the valves inflexed. Seeds numerous, minute, smooth. 



Hab. On the White-Hills of New-Hampshire. Peck and 

 Bigelow. July. On the Catskili Mountains, New-York. 

 D. Douglass. 



I have followed Mr. Don, who, at the suggestion of 

 Pursh, has separated all tiie species of Azalea, except 

 procumbens, and united them to Rhododendron, from which 

 they differ in no respect except in the number of stamens. 



162. PHYSALIS. L. 



Calyx 5-toothed. Corolla campanulate-rotate. Sta- 

 mens connivent. Berry 2-celled, covered by the in- 

 flated calyx. Gen. pi. 336. Nutt. Gen. I. p. 130. 

 Juss. p. 126. Lam. III. t. CXVI. f. 2. Roem. Cjf 

 Schult. Gen. 828. Nat. Ord. Solane^ Juss, 

 Winter-cherry. Ground-cherry, 



l.F, obscura M ich.P : pubescent; stem prostrate, di- 

 ▼aricate ; leaves broad-cordate, subsoiitary, unequally and 

 coar.»el^' toothed ; flowers solitary, nodding; calyx very hairy. 

 Mich. Fl. 1. p. 149.^ P. pruinosa Elliot t Sk. hp. 279, 



Root annual. Stem spreading on the ground, generally with 2 

 principal branches. Leaves on long petioles, often with much 

 snialler ones in the axils, acute, with coarse subtepand teeth; 

 base unequal. Floivtrs on peduncles much shorter than the 

 petioles. Calyx almost hispid ; segments ovate, acute. Co- 

 rolla dull yellow, with 5 oblong purple spots at the base. Sta- 

 mens hairy, purple ; anthers oblong. Berry globose, viscous, 

 enclosed in the persistent calyx. 



Hab. In dry woods, and on hills. Hoboken, New-Jersey, &c. 

 August. 



2. P. viscosa L. : leaves by pairs, subcordate-oval, re- 

 pand, obtuse, subtomenfose ; stem herbaceous, paniculate 

 above; fruit-bearing calyx pubescent, W il I d. Spec, I. p, 

 30 ^ f 



