SHRUBS 511 



thick, evergreen, broader at apex, narrower at base, entire, 

 smooth, dark green. Time, May. 



Calyx, 5-parted. Corolla, urn-shaped, with 5 short teeth, 

 turning backward. Stamens, 10; anthers with minute brislles 

 near the top, opening by terminal pores. Fruit, a red, berry- 

 like drupe, with 5 to 10 bony seeds. These berries make 

 winter food for birds. Flowers in a raceme on the ends of 

 trailing stems, with scaly bracts underneath. 



This plant is a near relative to the trailing arbutus, and must 

 be the one meant by the poet, rather than the epigaea in the 

 lines — 



" Beneath the various foliage, widely spreads 

 The arbutus, and rears his scarlet fruit 

 Luxuriant, mantling o'er the craggy steeps." 



It is a lover of bare rocks, sandy soil, and hills, from Pennsyl- 

 vania and New Jersey northward and westward. 



gg, Alpine Bearberry 



A. alpvta is a dwarf, tufted species, with black fruit, found 

 in New England, upon alpine summits. 



100. \Vater Andromeda 



Anffr6meda polifblia. — Family, Heath. Color, white, or 

 tinted with light pink. Leaves, linear or lance- shaped, on 

 short petioles, with revolute margins, thick, glossy, evergreen, 

 pointed, white underneath. Time, June. 



Calyx of 5 nearly separate divisions. Corolla, round, tubu- 

 lar, nearly closing at the mouth, 5-angled. Statnens, short, with 

 divided, brown anthers opening in pores at the top. Fruit, a 

 5-celled, many-seeded capsule. A low, smooth shrub, 6 to 18 

 inches high, with terminal umbels of flowers. 



Linnaeus himself named it after the fabled Andromeda. He 

 came across it in Lapland, and says: "Andromeda polifolia was 

 now (June 12th) in the highest beauty, decorating the marshy 



