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ERICACEJE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 
with evergreen or deciduous alternate leaves and mostly racemed 
or clustered flowers. (Fancifully named by Linnaeus in allusion 
to the fable of Andromeda.) 
§ 1. Andromeda proper.— Calyx small , without bractlets: corolla 
globose-urn-shaped , much contracted and 5-toothed at the top: fila¬ 
ments bearded : anthers tipped with 2 ascending awns : pod globular- 
obovate : seeds smooth and shining : flowers on short naked peduncles 
crowded in a terminal umbel. 
1. A. polifolia, L. (Rosemary Andromeda.) Low, very 
smooth; leaves evergreen, thick, lanceolate or linear, entire, with 
strongly revolute margins, green above, white beneath as well as the 
branchlets. — Cold peat-bogs, common northward. May.— Shrub 1° 
high ; the leaves V-2 r long, variable in breadth. 
§ 2. Cass'iope, Don. — Calyx without bractlets: corolla open , bell- 
shaped , 4 - 5-cleft: filaments smooth: anthers bearing 2 recurved 
awns : pod globose , the 5 valves 2-cleft at the apex : seed-coat close : 
small arctic or alpine low and Heath-like evergreens , with crowded or 
imbricated small entire leaves , and solitary long-peduncled nodding 
flowers. 
2. A* hypnoides, L. (Moss-like Andromeda.) Diffuse 
and tufted; leaves needle-shaped; peduncle terminal; corolla globu- 
lar-bell-shaped. — Alpine summits of the White Mountains, New 
Hampshire, and Mount Marcy, New York. July.— Plant moss-like, 
in depressed tufts, 2 f — 3* high. 
§ 3. Lyonia, Nutt. — Calyx without bractlets: corolla globular , pubes¬ 
cent outside , the narrow mouth 5-toothed : filaments pubescent: an¬ 
thers awnless: pod globular , the dorsal sutures bearing salient ribs 
which are generally separable when the pod opens: seed-coat loose: 
flowers (small) in panicled racemes or clusters. 
3. A. ligustrina, Muhl. (Privet Andromeda.) Leaves 
deciduous, obovate-oblong, pointed, nearly entire ; racemes crowded 
in a compound somewhat leafy or naked panicle on terminal branch¬ 
es of the preceding year. (A. panicul^ta, Ait.) — Swamps, common 
eastward. June. — Shrub 4°- 1(P high, minutely downy when young, 
sometimes rusty. Corolla scarcely 1" broad. 
§ 4. Cassandra, Don.— Calyx subtended by 2 bractlets: corolla cylin¬ 
drical-oblong , the mouth slightly narrowed and 5-toothed : filaments 
smooth : anthers atcnlcss but the cells with prolonged tubular points: 
pods depressed-globular , the epicarp 5-valved, separating from the 
cartilaginous inner portion , which splits into 5 at length 2-valved car¬ 
pels : seed-coat close and shining: low shrubs , with evergreen rusty- 
dotted leaves , and flowers solitary in the axils , forming one-sided 
leafy racemes. 
4. A. calyeiilata, L. (Rusty-leaved Andromeda.) Leaves 
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