170 ELEMENTS OF BOTANY. 



calyx and corolla glandular ; pedicels long, slender, viscid-glandular, 

 erect in fruit ; calyx and style persistent. May-June, Shady banks 

 on rocky or sandy soil. 



III. LEUCOTHOE. 



Shrubs ; leaves alternate, entire or serrate, deciduous or 

 persistent; flowers white or pink, in terminal or axillary 

 racemes ; pedicels jointed ; calyx deeply 5-parted, persistent ; 

 corolla cylindrical or urn-shaped, 5-toothed ; stamens 10, in- 

 cluded, anthers curved or mucronate ; disk 10-lobed ; ovary 

 5-celled, style slender, stigma capitate ; fruit a 5-celled, 

 5-valved, many-seeded capsule. 



1. L. AXILLARIS (Lam.) Don. Downy Leucothoe. A shrub 

 2-4 ft. high ; branches curved, puberulent when young ; leaves oval to 

 elliptical, spinose-serrate, at least near the apex, coriaceous, evergreen, 

 short-petioled, dark green and shining above, paler and slightly pubes- 

 cent beneath; racemes axillary, sessile, about half the length of the 

 leaves, densely many-flowered ; corolla cylindrical ; anthers horned at 

 the summit ; stigma 5-parted. February-March. Banks of streams. 



2. L. RACEMOSA (L.) Gray. Swamp Leucothoe;. A shrub 

 4-10 ft. high; branches straight, smooth or puberulent; leaves ovate 

 or oblong, short-petioled, thin, deciduous, nearly or quite smooth 

 above, pubescent beneath ; racemes mostly terminal, longer than the 

 leaves, and appearing with or before them ; pedicels jointed ; calyx 

 with 2 persistent bracts at the base ; anthers 2-awned ; style slender, 

 stigma capitate ; capsule subglobose. April-June. Margins of 

 swamps and streams. 



IV. PIERIS. 



Shrubs or small trees ; leaves alternate, often persistent 

 and green through the winter; flowers in terminal or axil- 

 lary racemes or clusters, nodding on bracted pedicels ; calyx 

 deeply 5-parted ; corolla ovoid, urn-shaped or bell-shaped, 

 5-lobed with recurved teeth ; stamens 10, included, anthers 

 awned or awnless ; disk 10-lobed ; ovary 5-celled, style thick, 

 stigma truncate ; fruit a 5-celled, 5-angled, globose, many- 

 seeded capsule. 



P. xitida (Bartr.) B. & H. Fetter-bush. A shrub 2-6 ft. 

 high; branches 3-angled, snmoth, yellowish-green ; leaves evergreen, 

 oval or oblong, very thick and coriaceous, entire, the margins bor- 



