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and undeveloped until late in the ensuing spring, when the flower-buds complete 

 their growth and the blossoms expand : bracts foliaceous-subulate, deciduous at 

 flowering : the short pedicels articulated with the rhachis. — Gray, Man. 1. c. 

 Euhotrys, Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. viii. 269. (Between Euleacothoe 

 and the genus Cassandra. The two Japanese species agree with this subgenus 

 only in foliage.) 



L. racemosa, Gray. Shrub 4 to 10 feet high : branches erect : leaves oblong or oval- 

 lanceolate, acute, serrulate, somewhat pubescent when young and on the midrib beneath : 

 racemes or spikes mostly solitary, erect or ascending: sepals lanceolate-ovate, very acute: 

 anther-cells each 2-awned: cajjsule coriaceous, not lobed: seeds angled and wingless, the 

 shining smooth coat conformed to the nucleus. — Man. ed. 2. 252, ed. 5, 294. Andromeda 

 ritc.cmosa & A. panicnlata (cliiefly), L. Spec. .394. A. spicata, Wats. Dendr. t. 36. Lijonia 

 rnremoMi & Leticothoe spicata, Don, 1. c. Zenobia racemosa, DC. 1. c. Cassandra racemosa, 

 Spach, Jlist. Veg. ix. 478. Euhotrys racemosa, Nutt. 1. c. — Varies with awns of antliers 

 very short. — Moist thickets (Canada, Pursh, but most doubtful), Massachusetts near the 

 coast to Florida and Louisiana. 



L. reciirva, Gray, l. c. Lower than the foregoing, and with divaricate branches : leaves 

 more acuminate : racemes spreading or recurved : sepals ovate : anther-cells 1-awned : 

 capsule chartaceous, strongly depressed and 5-lobed : seeds flat, with a broadly winged 

 loose cellular coat. — Andromeda {Zenobia) recurna, Buckley in Am. Jour. Sci. xlv. 172. — 

 Dry hills in the Alleghany Mountains, Virginia to Alabama. 



11. CASSANDRA, Don. Leather-Leaf. (Mythological: Cassandra, 

 was the daughter of Priam and Hecuba.) — A single good species. 



C. calyculata, Don. A low and much branched slirub, a foot or two high, witli re- 

 curving branches : leaves coriaceous and persistent, very sliort-petioled, oblong, obtuse, 

 obsoletely serrulate, dull green and lepidote-scurf\% an inch or so in length : flowers on 

 short recurved pedicels in the axils of tiie upper leaves, these becoming gradually smaller 

 and bract-like : calyx and bractlets rusty-lejiidote : flowers formed in summer and expand- 

 ing early tlie next spring : corolla cylindraceous-oblong, 5-lobed, wiiite, 2 or 3 lines long : 

 capsules small. — Andromeda, culi/ctdata, L. ; Pall. Fl. Ross. t. 71 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 128(3; 

 Lodd. Cab. t. 530 & 802. Chama'daphne ca/i/ctdala, Moench. Lijonia calijcniata, Reichenb. — 

 Bogs, through the cooler parts of the Northern Atlantic States, and in the Alleghanies to 

 Georgia; N. Illinois to Newfoundland; Kotzebue's Sound. (N. Eu. & N. Asia.) 



Var. angustifolia is a remarkable form, unknown in an indigenous condition : leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, and the somewhat revolute margins undulate or crisped : bractlets acute : 

 sepals more pointed. — Andromeda cali/culafa,\'iiT. anf/nsti/olia, Ait. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 70. ^4. an- 

 fliisti/olia, Pursh, Fl. i. 291. A. crispa, Desf. Cat.; Guimp., Otto, & Hayne, Holz. t. 51. — 

 " North America and Siberia," Hort. Kew. " Carolina to Georgia," Pursh ; but that is a 

 random guess. 



12. CASSlOPE, Don. (Cassiope was the mother oi Andromeda.) — Arc- 

 tic-alpine fruticulose evergreens, resembling Heaths or Lycopodium ; with small 

 or minute and imbricated or crowded entire and veinless leave.s, often opposite or 

 whorled, and solitary flowers nodding on the apex of an erect naked peduncle. 

 Sepals ovate, thickened at base. Corolla white or rose-color. Style thickened at 

 base' or conical. Placenta; many-seeded, pendulous from the summit of the short 

 columella: seeds with a thin close coat. — DC. Prodr. vii. GIG. 



* Leaves loose or spreading, narrow, flatfish: peduncle terminal : corolla deeply cleft : style conical. 

 C. Stelleriana, DC. Diffusely spreading, with the habit of Empetrum : leaves oblong- 

 linear, obtuse, widely spreading, obscurely serrulate (less than 3 lines long) : peduncle very 

 short: corolla 4-5-parted. — Andromeda Stelleriana, Pall. Fl. Ross. 58, t. 74; Hook. Fl. ii. 

 37, t. 131. Erica Stelleriana, Willd. Menziesia empetriformis, Pursh, Fl. i. 205, not Smith. 

 Bryanthus Stelleri, Don, Syst. iii. 833. — N. W. Coast, Sitka to Behring Straits. 



