284 ERICACEAE. 
ANDROMEDA. Bog Rosemary. 
(Family Ericaceae). 
Bog shrubs: evergreen. Twigs 
slender, at first 3-sided: pith small, 
3-sided, continuous. Buds _ soli- 
tary, sessile, compressed, small, 
ovoid, with 2 exposed scales. Leaf- 
scars alternate, more or less ele- 
vated, half-round or _ crescent- 
shaped, minute: bundle-trace 1: 
stipule-scars lacking. Leaves sim- 
ple, entire, elliptical to narrowly 
oblong, revolute, whitened be- 
neath. The small short-ovoid 5- 
celled capsules are present in 
winter. 
Winter-character references: — 
Andromeda cernua. Shirasawa, 
284, pl. 13. A. ovalifolia. Shira- 
sawa, 242, pl. 3. A. polifolia. Bose- 
mann, 35; Fant, 50. 
Like Kalmia, Pieris, Leucothée, 
Chamaedaphne and Rhododendron, 
this genus is reputed to be poisonous. 
Leaves glabrous: capsules brown. A. polifolia. 
Leaves tomentulose beneath: capsules glaucous. 
A. glaucophylla. 
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