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and thin cellular-reticulated testa : flowers (small and white) racemose or fascicled: 



bracts minute and deciduous. — Lyonia, Nutt. Gen. i. 2GG ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. 



ii. 587. 



* Lepidotc-scurfy, iidt pubescent : flowevs fascicled in tlie axils of persistent coriaceous leaves. 



A. ferruginea, "Walt. Low slirub, m- talkr and arborescent : leaves rigid, cuneate-obo- 

 vate, rhoiid)ic-ub{)vate, or euiieate-oblong, entire, witli revolute margins (1 or 2 inches long), 

 smof)th and shilling above, or obscurely lepidote when young, grayisli or ferrugineous- 

 lepidote beneath, much exceeding tlie flower-clusters: capsule oval-pentagonal, barely 

 2 lines long. — Car. 138; Michx. Fl. i. 252; Vent. Malm. t. 80. A. firrwjlnea & A. rigida, 

 Pursh, Fl. i. 295; Lodd. Cab. t. 430. Li/onia ferrw/hica & L. ri(/id(i, Nutt. I.e. — Michaux's 

 two forms are pretty well marked, viz. var. arborescens, with narrower less reticulated 

 leaves, usually crowded; and var. fraficosa, with sparser leaves conspicuously reticulated, 

 mostly cuneate-obovate or rhomboidal. To this belongs A. r/wmboidalis, " Veill." in Duham. 

 Arb. ed. nov. i. 192, therefore Leiwolhoe rliomboidulis, Don, I.e. — Sandy pine barrens, 

 S. Carolina to Florida. (W. Ind. & Mex. ?) 



* # Somewhat pubescent, hut not scurfy : leaves deciduous : flowers raccniose-panicled. 



A. ligustrina, Muhl. Shrub 3 to 10 feet high, much branched : pubescence minute : 

 leaves from obovate or broadly ovate to lanceolate-oblong (1 or 2 inches long), tliinnish, 

 obscurely serrulate or entire : racemes few-leaved at l)ase, or mainly from separate buds 

 (in summer), crowded in naked or leafy panicles : pedicels either scattered or fascicled : 

 corolla globose, barely 2 lines long: capsule globular: seeds oblong, obtuse at each end. — 

 Ell. Sk. i. 490; Torr. Fl. 421; Gray, Man.^1. c. A. panlcu/ala/ Alt.; Michx. Fl. i. 254, 

 partly, not L. (except as to syn. Pluk.). A. r/iceniosri, Lam., not L. Vdcciiiium lif/iistrinum, L. 

 Spec. i. 351. Li/nitia jmntcuhila, Nutt. 1. c. L. liffitstriiid, DC. 1. c. L. panicuhild, capretrfolia, 

 $(tIicifoJ!«, & timllijlom, Wats. Dendr. t. 37, 127, 128. — Wet grounds, Canada to Florida and 

 Arkansas. 



Var, pubescens. A form cinereous witli dense and soft fine pubescence. — A. fron- 

 doAd, Pursh, Fl. i. 295 (anthers not awned in specimen of herb. Enslin) ; Ell. 1. c. A. 

 ]>/niirii!dld, yar. Jblios/Jlora, M'n:hx. \. c, in part. Li/onia frondosd, l><i\tt. 1. c. — Virginia? to 

 Georgia. 



9. OXYDENDRUM, DC. Sorrf.l-tree, Sour-wood. (Composed of 

 oirc, sour, and 8{-'idnot>, tree, from the acid foliage. Oxijdendrnn, Benth. & Hook., 

 but DeCandolle's form follows the analogy of Epideiuh-um.) — A single species, 

 with Peach-like foliage : fl. summer. 



O. arboreum, DC. Tree 15 to 40 feet high: leaves membranaceous and deciduous, 

 oblong or lanctolate (4 to inches long), acuminate, serrulate, glabrous, or at first glaucous 

 veiny, slender-petioled : inflorescence a panicle of many-flowered racemes terminating the 

 leafy shoots of the season, appearing in early summer : flowers tardily opening : corolla 

 from cylindraccous- to ovate-conical (3 lines long), white, minutely pubescent. — Prodr. 

 vii. 001. Andmimda arbnred, L. (Catesb. Car. t. 71); Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 005; Michx. 

 f. Sylv. iii. t. 7 ; Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. 1, t. 30. Li/onid drborra, Don, 1. c. — Rich woods, 

 Penn., Ohio, and along the Alleghany region to Florida. 



10. LEUCOTHOE, Don. (Mythological; the name of one of the fifty 

 daughters of Nereus.) North and South American and Japanese shrubs, of 

 various habit ; with entire or serrulate leaves, and racemose chiefly white flowers. 

 — Don in Edinb. Jour. xvii. 1.59; Gray, Man. 1. c. Leucothoe & Agarista (at 

 least mainly), Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 584, 58G. (Ar/an'sta of Don is evidently 

 founded on the Mauritius and Bourbon species, the section Agaun'a, DC, genus 

 Af/auria, Benth. & Hook., to which are added S. American species, all or chiefly 

 belonging to Leucothoe.) 



§ 1. EuLEUCOTHOE. Calyx not bracteolate, 5-parted ; the divisions usually 

 only early or slightly overlapping, herbaceous or membranaceous : autheis awn- 



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