276 ERICACEAE. 
LEIOPHYLLUM. Sand Mpyrtle. 
(Family Ericaceae). 
Small shrubs of sandy regions 
near the coast: evergreen. Twigs 
very slender, subterete: pith mi- 
nute, continuous. Buds _ sessile, 
solitary, ovoid, appressed, with 
about 2 exposed scales. Leaf- 
scars opposite or the pairs more 
or less broken and then 4-ranked, 
minute, crescent-shaped or _ 3- 
sided, raised: bundle-trace 1: sti- 
pule-scars lacking. Leaves small, 
subelliptical, entire, distinctly 
petioled. The minute-beaked 5- 
valved clustered pale capsules 
may be present in winter. (Den- 
drium). 
The sand myrtle, which makes 
its northern limit in the pine bar- 
rens of New Jersey, is pictured 
photographically in an amply il- 
lustrated volume on the plants of 
southern New Jersey by Witmer Stone, constituting the Re- 
port of the New Jersey State Museum for 1910. 
Glabrous: leaves obscurely dotted beneath. L. buxifolium. 
