420 DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. andromeda. 



anthers simple at the summit. W ill d. *S/>«c. II. p. 609. 

 excl. sjn. J acq. Bot. Mag. 1 579. M i c k. Ft. I. p. 256. 

 Pursh FIA.^.I^I. Elliott Sk, I. ip. A93. Walt. 

 Car. p. 137. Gron. Virg. 49. P I uk. Mant. p. 25. t» 

 448. 



A shrub 2 — 4 feet high, with few erect branches. Leaves smooth, 

 acute at the base, rather obtuse at the extremity, puncticulate 

 beneath; margin slightly revolute. Racemes or naked branches 

 often a foot or more in length ; pedicels aggregated, half an 

 inch long. Calyx foliaceous, deeply 5-paried ; leaflets about 

 half as long as the corolla, oblong, acute. Corolla white, and 

 pale red, large. Stamens included ; filaments hairy ; anthers 

 with 2 minute awns at the base. Style longer than the sta- 

 mens, 5 -angled ; stigma lobed. Capsule somewhat conoid ; 

 the sutures closed externally by 5 narrow convev ribs. Seeds 

 subulate, very numerous, truncate at one extremity, attached 

 by the smaller end to the 5 lobes ov filacentx of the central 

 receptacle. 



Hab. In dry sandy woods. Abundant on Hempstead Plains, 

 Long-Island, and in the pine barrens of New-Jersey. June. 

 It also generally flowers again in October. A beautiful shrub. 



5. A. racemosa Mich,: leaves oval-lanceolate, acute, 

 serrulate, membranaceous, pubescent beneath ; racemes ter- 

 minal, secund, simple, (or rarely branched) ; corolla oblong- 

 cylindrical ; anthers 4-awned at the summit. Mich. Ft. \. 

 p.255. fTiZ/rf. 5)9ec. II. p. 612.? Ait. Kezo. U. ^. Qd. 

 PurshFl.\.-^.'2dA. Elliott Sk.\. p. 492. Nutt. 

 Gen. I. p. 265. A. panlculata Walt. Car. p. 138. A. 

 speciosa Willd. 1. c. 613. excl. syn. Walt. A. racemis 

 simplicibus, foliis lanceolatis, &c. Gron. Virg. 67. A. 

 panlculata L. Sp.pl. 564. nee Ait., Mich., &c, 



A shrub 4 — 6 feet high, with irregular straggling branches. 

 Leaves acute at each extremity, smooth above, finely serrulate 

 on the margin. Racemes 3 — 4 inches long, sometimes, from 

 luxuriance, compound ; fiowers on short pedicels, nodding, 

 sweet scented. Calyx bibracteate at the base, coloured ; seg- 

 ments lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate. Corolla white, with the 

 segments minute, revolute. Stamens not half the length of 

 the covo\\2i\ filaments smooth; anthers bifid, each division 

 2-awned. Germen roundish ; style slightly exserted, cylindric ; 

 stigma minute. 



Hab. In swamps and on the borders of wet woods ; rare. 

 June — July. 



6. A. arborea L. : branches terete ; leaves oblong, acu- 

 minate, acutely serrate, smooth ; panicles terminal, many- 

 spiked ; corolla ovate-oblong, pubescent ; anthers unawned. 

 Willd. Spec. U. p. 612. Ait. Keio. II. p. ed. Bot. Mag. 



