DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 167 
Shrubs, with small, mostly white, urn-shaped flowers. 
Andromeda, ITI. 
A prostrate plant, hardly at all shrubby. Leaves rather large, 
often 14 in. wide, and veiny. Epigea, IV. 
A trailing plant with small (about } in. wide), thick, evergreen 
leaves. Arctostaphylos, V. 
B. 
Shrubs. Calyz-tube adnate to the ovary, on which the gamopetalous 
corolla and the stamens are borne. Fruit a true berry or resembling 
one. 
Fruit a berry-like stone-fruit, with 10 nutlets which resemble 
seeds. Gaylussacia, VI. 
Fruit a berry with many small seeds. Vaccinium, VII. 
I. RHODODENDRON, L. 
Shrubs, often much branched. Leaves alternate, thin, 
deciduous. Flowers very showy, in terminal umbels, from 
scaly buds, which became well developed the previous season. 
Calyx very small, 5-parted. Corolla bell-shaped, the tube 
long and slender, the limb spreading and somewhat one-sided. 
Stamens 5 or 10, declined; anthers awnless. Style long and 
slender, declined; stigma knobbed. Capsule oblong or linear, 
5-celled, many-seeded; seeds very small, scale-like. 
1. R. nudiflorum, Torr. Witp Honrysuckie, ELECTION Pink. 
A branching shrub, 4—6 ft. high; twigs smooth or with a few coarse 
hairs. Leaves obovate or oblong, ciliate-serrate, downy, becoming 
smooth above; petioles short. Flowers appearing with or before 
the leaves, pink or white, sometimes yellowish, fragrant, 1-2 in. 
wide, tube downy but not glandular. Capsule erect, linear-oblong, 
2-3 in. long. Swamps and banks of streams; flowers extremely 
variable in size and color.* 
2. R. viscosum, Torr. Swamp Honrysuckie, Swamp PInk. 
A shrub, 4-6 ft. high; branches hairy. Leaves obovate, leathery, 
mucronate at the apex, mostly smooth above, downy on the veins 
beneath; petioles very short. Flowers appearing later than the 
leaves, white, fragrant, 14-2 in. long; tube long, glandular-viscid ; 
capsule erect, 1-2 in. long, bristly. In swamps.* 
