PROCEKDINQS 



OF THE 



WASHINGTON ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



Vol. Ill, pp. 569-576. [Text Figures 62-66.] DECEMBER II, 1901. 



PAPERS FROM THE HARRIMAN ALASKA 

 EXPEDITION. 



XXVI. 



HARRIMANELLA, A NEW GENUS OF HEATHERS. 



By Frederick V. Coville. 



The German naturalist Pallas, for more than forty years the 

 leader of Russian researches in natural history, published in 

 1788 a description of a new heather from eastern Siberia under 

 the name Andromeda stelleriana. Willdenow, in 1799, trans- 

 ferred the species to the genus Erica. In the year 1834 David 

 Don, a Scotch botanist, placed it in the genus Bryanthus, while 

 Sir W. J. Hooker, studying the same plant independentl}^ re- 

 ferred it back to Andromeda, citing the opinion of another bot- 

 anist who considered it a Menziesia. In 1839 ^he plant was 

 referred by De Candolle to Cassiope, and under the name Cas- 

 stope stelleriana it has since passed. 



The genus Cassiope was founded by David Don, in 1834, ' 

 the plants originally included in it consisting of five species 

 taken out of the older genus Andromeda. Two of these, tetra- 

 gona and hypnoides, were species described by Linnagus and 

 occurring in northern Europe ; two others, lycofodioidcs and 

 ericoides had been described by Pallas from eastern Siberia, 

 and owti, Jiistigiata, by Wallich from the Himalayas. Cassiope 

 tetragona {Andromeda tetragona L.) was named by Don as the 

 type of his new genus. To Cassiope belong, therefore, the 

 species tetragona and such others as are congeneric with it. A 



*D. Don, Edinb. New Phil. Jom-n. 17: 157. 1834. 



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