150 ERICACEAE, 
narrow leaves; few small pink or white perfect urceolate gam- 
opetalous flowers in terminal umbels; and subglobose small 
many-seeded capsules. 
Leaves glabrous: capsules brown, globose. A. Polifolia. 
Leaves white-tomentulose beneath: capsules 
glaucous. A. glaucophylla. 
LYONIA, 
Shrubs with brown or gray smooth or fissured bark; slender 
3-angled twigs; somewhat angular homogeneous pith; alternate 
low crescent-shaped or half-round leaf-scars with 1 bundle- 
trace; no stipule-scars; solitary sessile round-ovoid buds with 
about 2 exposed scales; small pale perfect urn-shaped gam- 
opetalous flowers in axillary or. panicled racemes; and small 
rounded many-seeded capsules. . 
Evergreen. L. ferruginea. 
Deciduous. L. ligustrina. 
Pieris, Stagger Bush. | 
Evergreen or deciduous shrubs sometimes with shredding 
bark; rather slender roundish or 3-sided twigs; 3-sided con- 
tinuous pith; alternate raised half-round small leaf-scars with 
a single bundle trace; no stipule-scars; sessile ovoid buds with 
several exposed scales; lance-elliptical entire or ciliate-serrulate 
short-petioled leaves; rather small white gamopetalous urceolate 
perfect flowers in axillary racemes or forming a_ terminal 
panicle; and small round or flask-shaped many-seeded capsules. 
(Lyonia, Xolisma). 
1. Evergreen: buds compressed, acute. 2. 
Deciduous: buds blunt, with about 5 scales. P. Mariana. 
2. Twigs and petioles sparsely hairy. P. floribunda. 
Glabrous, P. nitida. 
CHAMAEDAPHNE, Cassandra. Leather Leaf. 
Rather small evergreen shrubs with somewhat shredding 
bark; slender 3-sided twigs; minute 3-sided or flattened homo- 
geneous pale pith; alternate low roundish margined leaf-scars 
with 1 bundle-trace; no stipule-scars, small rounded buds with 
