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



bracts minute and deciduous. — Lyonia, Nutt. Gen. i. 2G6 ; Beuth. & Hook. Gen. 



ii. 587. 



* Lepidote-scurfy, not pubescent : flowers fascicled in the axils of persistent coriaceous leaves. 



A. ferruginea, ^V^alt. Low shrub, or taller and arborescent : leaves rigid, cuneate-obo- 

 vate, rhombic-obovate, or cuneate-oblong, entire, with revolute margins (1 or 2 inches long), 

 smooth and shining above, or obscurely lepidote when young, grayish or ferrugineous- 

 lepidote beneath, nmch exceeding the flower-clusters : capsule oval-pentagonal, barely 

 2 lines long. — Car. 138; Michx. FI. i. 252; Vent. Malm. t. 80. A. ferrw/inea & A. rigida, 

 Pursh, n. 1.295; Lodd. Cab. t. 430. Li/onia ferrur/inea & L. ri;/ida, Nutt. i.e. — Michaux's 

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

 leaves, usually crowded; and var. f rati cosa, with sjiarser leaves conspicuously reticulated, 

 mostly cuneate-obovate or rhomboidal. To this belongs A. rhoinboldalis, " Veill." in Duhain. 

 Arb. ed. nov. i. 192, therefore Leucothoe rhomboidulls, Don, I.e. — Sandy pine barrens, 

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



* * Somewhat pubescent, but not scurfy: leaves deciduous : flowers racemose-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), thiunish, 

 obscurely serrulate or entire : racemes few-leaved at base, 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. FI. 421; Gray, Man. 1. c. A. paniculala, Ait.; Michx. Fl. i. 254, 

 partly, not L. (except as to syn. Pluk.). A. racemosn, Lam., not L. Vaccinium lic/ustrimiin, L. 

 Spec. i. 351. Li/nnia paniculatd, Nutt. 1. C. L. lif/nstriiKt, DC. 1. c. L. paniculala, caprea'foHa, 

 saliclfoUa, & multi/lora, Wats. Dendr. t. 37, 127, 128. — Wet grounds, Canada to Florida and 

 Arkansas. 



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

 dosa, Pursh, Fl. i. 295 (anthers not awned in specimen of herb. Enslin) ; Ell. I.e. .1. 

 panictdata, \?iY. folios! flora, Michx. 1. c, in part. Li/onia Jrondosa, Nutt. 1. c. — Virginia? to 

 Georgia. 



9. OXYDENDRUM, DC. Sorrel-tree, Sour-avood. (Composed of 

 oivg, sour, and dt'vdnoi', tree, from the acid foliage. Oxi/dendron, Benth. & Hook., 

 but DeCandoUe's form follows the analogy of Epidendrum.) — A single species, 

 with Peach-like foliage : fl. summer. 



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

 oblong or lanceolate (4 to 6 inches long), acuminate, serrulate, glabrous, or at first glaucous, 

 veiny, slcnder-petioled ; inflorescence a panicle of many-flowered racemes terminating tlie 

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

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

 vii. GOl. Andromeda arborea, L. (Catesb. Car. t. 71); Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 905 ; Michx. 

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

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



10. LEUC6TH0E, 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. 160; Gray, Man. 1. c. Leucothoe & A(/an'sfa (at 

 least mainly), Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 584, 586. (A(/arisfa of Don is evidently 

 founded on the Mauiitius and Bourbon species, the section Agauria, DC, genus 

 Agauria, Benth. & Hook., to which are added S. American species, all or chiefly 

 belonging to Leucothoe.) 



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

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



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