Andromeda. ERIC AGILE. 31 



A. polif olia, L. Shrub a foot or so high, glabrous and glaucous : the firm-coriacoous 

 and evergreen Koseniary-like leaves from linear to lanceolate-oblong, with strongly revo- 

 lute margins, white beneath: flowers (early spring) in a small terminal umbel: pedicels 

 from the axils of ovate persistent scaly bracts, naked. — Fl. Lapp. t. 1, f. 3; Fl. Dan. t. 54. 

 .1. rosnuirini/uliii, Pursh, Fl. i. 201. A. (jluncDp/iijIln, Link, Knum. i. o!»4. — Wet bogs, &c., 

 from New Jersey and I'ennsylvania, and on the Pacitic side from Norfolk Sound to the 

 arctic coast. Capsule in the Ameiican specimens more or less depressed, in the European 

 higher than broad. (Eu., N. Asia.) 



§ 2. Zi:n6iua. Corolla opeu-campaiiulate, obtusely 5-lobe(l : calyx barely 5- 

 [):u"ted, thickish, with the thiu margins valvate in the early bud : lilaments naked, 

 abruptly dilated at base: anthers lanceolate; each cell surmounted by a pair of 

 slender ascending awns : capsule depressed-globose, obtusely o-lobed, and some- 

 what carinate at the dors-al suttires : placentie on the middle ot" the very short 

 columella : seeds oval, angled, with a rather soft minutely reticulated coat. — 

 Zraobia. Don, &c. 



A. speciosa, Michx. Shrub 2 to 4 feet higli, glabrous, often glaucous : leaves cori- 

 aceous, but deciduous, oval or oblong (an inch or two long), commonly creuulate or 

 sparsely serrulate, reticulate-veiny : flowers in umbel-like fascicles from axillary buds, 

 mostly racemose on naked branches of the preceding year: pedicels naked, drooping: 

 calyx-lobes triangular, short: corolla white (a third of an inch high and wide). Varies 

 from bright green to chalky-white with a dense glaucous bloom. — Fl. i. 256; Pursh, Fl. i. 

 294; Lodd. Cab. t. 551. A. niuda, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 970. A. cassliwJhUa niida, Vent. Cels., 

 1. 00. Zenohia speciosa, Don, 1. c. The following relate to the var. pulvenihnta, Michx., i. e. 

 the white glaucous form : Andromeda pulvendenta, Bartr. Trav. 47G, with plate ; Sims, Bot. 

 Mag. t. 667. A. cassinejhiia pulvendoita. Vent. Malm. t. 79. A. deallxita, Lindl. Bot. Keg. 

 t. 1010, a state with corolla 5-parted. — Low pine-barrens, Florida to N. Carolina. 



§ o. PoRTUNA. Corolla ovate-urceolate, 5-tootlied : calyx deeply 5-parted; 

 the lol)es firm-coriaceous and thick-edged, ovate-lanceolate, strictly valvate in the 

 bud: filaments not appendaged : anthers oblong; the cells each with a slender 

 deflexed awn on the back at the junction with the filament : capsule globose, not 

 thickened at the sutures : placent;\3 borne on the summit of the columella : seeds 

 mostly scobiform : flowers in axillary and terminal racemes, formed during the 

 preceding sun\mer, remaining naked until early the following spring, when the 

 (white) blossoms unfold : pedicels minutely bracteate and 2-3-bracteolate : leaves 

 coriaceous, evergreen. — Portima, Nutt. 1. c. Pieris § Portuna & § PhUlyreoides, 

 Benth. & Hook. 1. c. (Here also belong A. Cubensis, Griseb., A. Japoiil.ca, Thunb., 

 and A. formosa, Wall.) 



A. floribunda, Pursh. Shrub 2 to 6 feet high, very leafy : young branchlcts, &c., 

 strigose with rusty or dark hairs: leaves thinnish-coriaceous, lanceolate-oblong, acute or 

 acuminate, minutely serrulate and bristly-ciliate, rounded at base, somewhat glandular- 

 dotted beneath (2 inches long) : racemes crowded in a terminal short panicle, densely 

 flowered: corolla ('■) lines long) strongly 5-angled and at base 5-saccate, twice the length of 

 the calyx: seeds linear-oblong with a very loose cellular coat, large, all pendulous from 

 the sunnnit of the cell.— Fl. i. 29;]; Bot. Mag. t. 1566; Bot. Keg. t. 807. A. (Leucol/we) 

 inoniana, Buckley in Amer. Jour. Sci. xlv. 172. Lencodioe /lordmnda, Don, 1. c. Zenohia 

 JioriiiHiidii, D(^. 1. c. Portuna floribandti, Nutt. 1. c. — Moist shaded hills, in the AUegha- 

 nies, Virginia to (ieorgia. 



A. phillyreifolia, Hook. Shnd)a foot or two high, nearly glabrous : branches slender, 

 alternately leafy and scaly-bracteate : leaves firm-coriaceous, oblong or lanceolate-oblong, 

 obtuse, more or less serrulate or few-toothed near the apex (an inch or two long) : racemes 

 solitary and axillary, loosely 4-r2-flowered : bracts deciduous : corolla ovoid, not angled, 

 twice the length of the calyx : seeds small and short, borne on all sides of the placenta;, 

 which occupy the middle of the cells of tlie depressed-globular unibilicate cajjsule; the 



