Professor Swartz's Observations on Menziesia. 377 



buxifolia, &c. that difficulty is certainly soon removed. It is also 

 interesting to observe, how nature has varied the appearances in 

 both these genera, as well as in many others. 



From such reasons I hope to determine with sufficient pro- 

 priety the Andromeda caruka to be 



Men zizsi A ccerulea; 



foliis sparsis confertis linearibus obtusis cartilagineo-denticulatis, 

 pedunculis terminalibus aggregatis unifloris, floribus decandris. 



Tab. XXX. Fig. A. 



Andromeda ca^rulea. Linn. Fl. Lappt ed. Smith, p. 133. t. 1. 

 f. 5. Flor. Svec. 354. 



Andromeda taxifolia. Pallas Fl. Ross. t. 72. Jig. 2. Flor. p. 103. 

 Erica caerulea. Willd. Sp. PI. ii. p. 393. 



Obs. Folia sparsa, conferta (imprimis versus apices ramorum) nee 

 propria tema dicenda, Willd.) planiuscula, utrinque sulco ex- 

 arata, subtiis latiore albido villoso, margine minutfe denticulata, 

 denticulis cartilaginpis diaphanis. Pedunculi intens^ rubri, 

 elongati, pube glandulifera undique hispiduli. Calyx extiis 

 glanduloso-pubescens. Flores nutantes. Antherce leviter apice 

 bifidae, loculis foramine terminali oblique hiantes. Stigma 

 5-lobum. Capstilce erectae, hirsutie glandulifera vestitae, vetus- 

 tiores muriculatae. Recepfaailum seminum 5-gonum 5-sulca- 

 tum, angulis rugulosis. Semina oblonga, undato-vemilosa, 

 spadicea. 



The other, or Andromeda Bryantha, I call 



Menziesia Bryantha; 



foliis sparsis confertis oblongo-linearibus, pedunculis apice co- 

 ryrabosis, floribus octandris. 



Tab. 



