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§ 1. Parabryaxthus. Corolla open-campanulate, 5-cleft or 5-lobed : calyx 

 glabrous : flowers racemose-clustered : pedicels subtended by foliaceous and rii^id 

 bracts: leaves almost smooth, with strongly revolute thickened margins. — Gray, 

 Bot. Calif. 1. c. BryantJius, in part, Hook. & Beuth. Gen. 1. c. Phyllodoce, in part, 

 Maxim. 1. c. 



B. Bre'Weri, Gray. A span to a foot high, rigid : leaves 3 to 7 lines long : pedicels 

 numerous, at first siiorter tiian tiie flowers : corolla rose-purple, almost saucer-shaped, 

 5-cleft fully to the middle, large for the genus, the spreading lohes 2 lines long : stamens 

 (7 to 10) and style soon much exserted. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 377. — Sierra Nevada at 

 about 10,000 feet. Flowers comparatively large and showy. 



B. empetriformis, Gray, 1. c. A span or so high : leaves similar to those of the pre- 

 ceding, or rough at the margin : pedicels fewer and more umbellate : corolla rose-color, 

 much smaller (between 2 and 3 lines long), campanulate, barely 5-lobed; the lobes much 

 shorter than the tube: stamens included: style either included or exserted. — Menziesia 

 empetriformis, Smitli in Linn. Trans, x. 280 ; Piu'sh, Fl. i. 264 ; Graham in Edinb. Phil. Jour. 

 & Bot. Mag. t. 3170 ; Hook. Fl. ii. 40. 31. Gruhami, Hook. 1. c. Phi/llodoce empetriformis, 

 Don, Syst. iii. 783. — Rocky Mountains from lat. 50° to 42°, and Moimt Shasta, California 

 to Vancouver's Island. 



Var. intermedius {Menziesia intermedia, Hook. 1. c), apparently a form with corolla 

 approaching cyhndraceous and sepals rather acute. — Northern Rocky Mountains, /)/«/«- 

 mond, Li/all. 



§ 2. Phyllodoce. Corolla ovate, contracted at tlie orifice, 5-toothed : calyx 

 glandular-pubescent : stamens and style included : pedicels umbellate ; the bract- 

 lets scarious and bracts thinnish : leaves more scabrous-ciliolate or rouo-hish. 



Phyllodoce, Salisb. Parad. Lond. 36; DC. I.e., in part; Benth. & Hook. 1. c. 



* Flowers purple, rarely rose-color, 2 to 6 in the umbel, or sometimes solitarj'. 

 B. taxifolius, Gray, 1. c. Barely a span high: leaves with acute scabrous-ciliolate 

 edges: pedicels minutely glandular: sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate: corolla from 

 urceolate-oblong to ovoid, glabrous, as are the filaments. — Andromeda taxifolia. Pall. Fl. 

 Ross. ii. 54, t. 72 ; Fl. Dan. t. 57. A. ccBrulea, L. Fl. Lapp. t. 1, f. 5, but corolla not blue. 

 Menziesia ccerulea, Swartz in Linn. Trans, x. 377, t. 30. PhijUodoce taxifolia, Salisb. 1. c. ; DC. 

 I.e. — Alpine mountain summits of New Hampshire and Maine; also Labrador. (Green- 

 land, N. Eu. to Japan and Kamtschatka.) 



* * Flowers from white or whitish to sulphur-color. 

 B. Aleilticus, Gray, l. c. A span or more high : leaves of the preceding: pedicels (7 to 

 15) and base of the acutish sepals very glandular: corolla almost globose, glabrous, 

 whitish : filaments glabrous. — Menziesia Aleutica, Spreng. Syst. ii. 202 ; Cham, in Linn. 

 1.515; Hook. I.e.; not Bong. Phi/Ilodoce Pallasiana, Don, & DC. I.e. (as to pi. Cham., 

 Andromeda cceriilea, v&r. viridljiora. Pall, herb.?); Maxim. Rhod. As. Or. 6. — Unalaschka 

 and Alaska. (Kamtschatka to Japan.) 

 B. glanduliflorus, Gray, 1. c. A span or two high : leaves similar or thicker-edged : 

 pedicels (3 to 8) and acuminate sepals glandular-hirsute : corolla turgid-ovate, glandular, 

 sulplnir-color : filaments puberulent. — Menziesia (jiandali flora. Hook. Fl. ii. 40, t. 1-32. M. 

 Aleutica, Bong. Sitk. 154, t. 3 (poor), not of Spreng. — Rocky Mountains, lat. 49° to 50°, 

 and west to Sitka. 



15, KALMIA, L. American Laurel. (Pe^er iTaZ/w, a pupil of Linnfeu.s, 

 who travelled in Canada and N. States, and became professor at Abo.) — N. 

 American shrubs and one W. Indian ; with evergreen entire leaves, and umbellate 

 clustered or rarely scattered showy flowers, either rose-colored, purple, or white : 

 no scaly leaf-buds nor thin scaly-bracted flower buds ; the bracts ovate to subulate, 

 coriaceous or firm and persistent. Calyx 5-parted or of 5 sepals, imbricated in 

 the btid. Limb of the corolla in the bud strongly 10-carinate from the pouches 



