ERICACEAE. 283 
LEUCOTHOE. Fetter Bush. 
(Family Ericaceae). 
Shrubs: evergreen or deciduous. 
Twigs rather slender, finally sub- 
terete: pith roundish or somewhat 
3-sided, continuous. Buds small, 
solitary, sessile, globose or ovoid, 
with 3 or 4 exposed scales, the 
end-bud lacking. Leaf scars al- 
ternate, small, crescent-shaped or 
half-round, little elevated: bundle- 
trace 1:  stipule-scars lacking. 
Leaves, when present, simple, 
serrulate. The small depressed- 
globose capsules are often present 
in winter. 
Winter-character reference to 
Leucothoe racemosa: — Schneider, 
f. 1238. 
The flowers of Leucothde are 
intensely fragrant and a plant that 
is quite concealed in surrounding 
shrubbery may be located often 
by its fragrance. Unfortunately the genus is poisonous to 
stock. 
1. Deciduous. 2. 
Evergreen. 3. 
2. Capsules scarcely lobed: racemes straight. (1). L. racemosa. 
Capsules deeply lobed: racemes curved. (2). L. recurva. 
3. Leaves small (4 cm. long), ovate, very obtuse. L. Davisiae. 
Leaves larger, pointed. 4. 
4. Leaves lanceolate, acute. L. axillaris. 
Leaves ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. (3). L. Catesbaei. 
