562 ERICACEAE. (Vor. II. 
1. Menziesia pildsa (Michx.) Pers. Alleghany Menziesia. (Fig. 2752.) 
zalea pilosa Michx. in Lam. Journ, Nat. Hist. 1: 410. 1792. 
Menztesia pilosa Pers. Syn. 1: 420. 1805. 
Menziesia globularis Salisb. Parad. Lond. 44. 1806. 
M. ferruginea var. globularis Sims, Bot. Mag. pi. 1577. 1813. 
A shrub, 2°-6° high, the twigs more or less chaffy and 
with stiff hairs. Leaves oval, oblong or obovate, thin, obtuse 
or acutish and glandular-mucronulate at the apex, narrowed 
at the base, rough-hairy above, pale, glaucescent and some- 
times chaffy on the veins beneath, 1/-2’ long, the margins 
ciliate; petioles 2//-5’’ long, pubescent; flowers few in the 
umbels, drooping; pedicels filiform, glandular, %/-1’ long; 
calyx-lobes short and broad, hirsute-ciliate; corolla urn- 
shaped or globose-ovoid, 2’/-3’ long; filaments glabrous; 
capsule ovoid, about 2’’ high, erect, glandular-bristly; seeds 
pointed at each end. 
In mountain woods, Pennsylvania to Georgia. May-June. 
2. Menziesia glabélla A. Gray. Smooth 
Menziesia. (Fig. 2753.) 
Menziesia glabella A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2: Part 1, 39. 1878. 
Similar to the preceding species. Leaves obovate, obtuse 
and glandular-mucronulate at the apex, pale, glaucous and 
glabrous or very nearly so beneath, sparingly pubescent above, 
9//-18’’ long, the margins ciliolate; flowers 1-5 in the um- 
bels, spreading, becoming erect; pedicels 14’-1’ long, glan- 
dular; calyx-lobes short and broad, ciliate and pubescent; 
corolla urn-shaped, about 2’/ long; filaments pubescent be- 
low; capsule oblong or obovoid, erect, about 2’” high, gla- 
brous; seeds long-appendaged at each end. 
Minnesota Point, Lake Superior, west to Oregon and British 
Columbia. May-June. 
6. DENDRIUM Desv. Journ. Bot. (II.) 1: 36. 1813. 
[LEIOPHYLLUM Pers. Syn. 1: 477. 1805. Not Ehrh. 178o.] 
A glabrous evergreen shrub, with coriaceous entire small mostly opposite leaves, and 
numerous small white or pinkish flowers, in terminal corymbs. Bracts coriaceous, persist- 
ent. Calyx 5-parted, the segments rigid, oblong-lanceolate, acute, persistent. Petals 5, ses- 
sile, ovate to obovate, spreading. Stamens 10, exserted; filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers 
small, globose-didymous, attached by their backs to the filaments, awnless, the sacs opening 
longitudinally. Disk 10-lobed. Ovary 2-5-celled; ovules numerous; style slender, straight; 
stigma simple, truncate. Capsule ovoid, septicidally 2-5-valved from the top, [Greek, a tree.] 
A small genus of eastern North America. 
1. Dendrium buxifolium (Berg.) Desv. Sand 
Myrtle. (Fig. 2754.) 
Ledum buxifolium Berg. Act. Upsal. 1777: pl. 3, 2. 1777. 
Dendrium buxtfolium Desv. Journ. Bot. (II) 1:36. 1813. 
Leiophyllum buxifolium Ell. Bot. S.C. & Ga. 1: 483. 1819-20. 
A low shrub with box-like foliage, widely branching, 
4/-18’ high. Leaves crowded, oblong or oval, thick, 
obtuse, dark green and shining above, lighter and black- 
dotted beneath, short-petioled, somewhat revolute-mar- 
gined, 3/’-7’’ long, the midrib prominent, the lateral 
veins obscure; flowers several or numerous in short corymbs, 
about 2’’ broad; anthers purple; pedicels filiform, 3’/-5’’ 
long in fruit; capsule acute, slightly over 1’ high, gla- 
brous, puberulent, or roughened with short processes. 
In dry, sandy pine-barrens, New Jersey to Florida. The 
same or a related species on the higher mountains of North 
Carolina. April-June. 
