376 Professor Swartz's Observations on Menziesia. 



From equally urgent reasons I take the liberty to indicate a 

 similarity of character in two other plants, and to propose their 

 union with the genus Menziesia as real species. These are the 

 Andromeda carulea of Linnaeus, and the Andromeda Bryantha of 

 Pallas. As for the first-mentioned, the discovery of its particular 

 fruit is by no means new, as the celebrated author of the Flora 

 Britannica in his new edition of the Linnean Flora Lapponica has 

 already observed the carpological difference of this plant from 

 the other species of Andromeda; and at that time thought 

 proper to refer the same to Erica, where also Professor Willde- 

 now in his Spec. Plant, has enlisted it, as well as the Andromeda 

 Brijantha. It is, however, now my intention to prove the pro- 

 priety of an alteration in this arrangement. 



That the capsule of Andromeda ccerulea by its vahee introjlexce 

 loculum propritim constituentes (Juss.) shows its relationship to the 

 Rhododendra, cannot escape an intelligent observer. This cir- 

 cumstance added to a comparison with the partes fritctificantes of 

 Menziesia puts, I think, its near affinity Avith that genus out of 

 doubt. The calyx of the former is, it is Irne, rppnndus but mo- 

 nophyllus ; in the latter also consisting of one leaf, though deeply 

 divided into 5 laciuiae. The form of the corolla, its deciduous 

 nature, the insertio staminum, the antherce, the stigma lobatum, all 

 correspond. The number only differs ; which however cannot be 

 of any particular weight, since we find that the Andromeda Bry~ 

 antha, in so many respects resembling the former, even in number 

 approaches the Menziesia, as being octandrous. 



Upon the whole, there is nothing but the habit which at first 

 sight shows any difference. But considering the very great dis- 

 similarity really existing between the species of Andromeda, for 

 instance between A. hypnoides and A. mariana, or A. tetragona and 



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