ANDROMEDA. DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, 421 



905. M i c h. Fl. I. p. 255. M ich. f. Arh. III. p. 222, 

 f: 7. PurshFl. I. p. 295. Elliott Sk. I. p. 491. 

 Bart. Fl. Jimer. Sept. I. t. 30. Walt. Car. p. 138. 

 Gron. Virg. 48. Catesb. Car. I. t. 7 1 . 



A middle-sized tree. Leaves peliolate, large, shining above, 

 paler beneath, uncinately serrate. Flowers in large terminal 

 panicles, composed of numerous secund racemes or spikes; 

 pedicels naked at the base, with one minute bract below the 

 flower. Segments of the calyx short, acute. Corolla white, 

 obtusely pentangular. Filaments very short; anthers long, 

 • bifid. Style not exserted. 



Hab. In the valleys of the Alleghany Mountains, Pennsylvania. 



Pur s h. Sorrel-tree. 



This tree, according to the younger Mi chaux, sometimes 



attains the height of feet. The leaves are pleasantly acid, 



and are frequently used by the hunters to assuage thirst. 



7. A. ligustrina MuhL: pubescent; leaves obovate- 

 ianceolate, acuminate, minutely serrulate ; floriferous branches 

 terminal, paniculate, naked ; corolla subglobose ; anthers un- 

 awned. M uh I. Cat. p. A4. E i Hot t Sk. \. p. 'iOO. Vac- 

 ciNiUM ligustrinum Sp. pi. p. 560. Androm. panicidata 

 Will d. Spec. II. p. 612. excl. syn. L., &c. ^ i t. Kezo. II. 

 p. 69. M i c h. Fl. I. p. 254. Pursh Fl. I. p. 295. 

 Big. Bost. p. 102. hYom A panicidata N utt. Gen. I. p. 

 266. 



A shrub 4—8 feet high, with numerous straggling branches. 

 Leaves at length smooth on the upper surface, membranace- 

 ous. Panicles compound, nearly naked, erect ; fiedicels some- 

 what aggregated, without bracts. Ca/yx 5-toothed. Corolla 

 small, nearly globose, white, pubescent. Stamens shorter 

 than the corolla; anthers acute. Style not exserted; stigma 

 simple. Cufisule globose ; sutures closed by 5 narrow convex 

 ribs.f Seeds subulate, attached by the smaller extremity to 

 the 5 lobes of the central receptacle. 



Hab. In swamps and wet thickets. June — July. 



This is certainly the Vaccinium tigustririum o( Linn a us, 

 as I am informed by Sir J. E. Smit h. The A. fianiculata, 

 of the former, is perhaps merely a luxuriant specimen of A, 

 racemosa, which often, especially in the Southern States, bears 

 compound racemes. 



t The genus Lyonia o^ J^'uttall is characterized as distinct from 

 ANDiioMKDA, by ttie valves of the capsule being closed with 5 other nar- 

 row and exterior valves. This structure is, however, observed m some 

 eenuine species of Andiiomeda, as in K.mariana; and Mr. A'uttull in- 

 forms me, he now thinks his Lxo.-yiA had better be reunited to the genus 

 ipom whence it was taken. 



