132 SILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. ERICACES. 
the sea, from the mountains of Oaxaca, and from Orizaba, Jitotole, and Talea.1_ In the United States it 
is usually found in the neighborhood of the coast, where, in the rich soil of the wooded hummocks which 
rise from the sandy Pine-covered coast plain, it grows as a small tree,’ with crowded narrow less con- 
spicuously reticulate-veined leaves, or in the dry sandy sterile soil of the Pine barrens as a low shrub* 
with remoter broader obovate or rhomboidal leaves conspicuously reticulate-veined. 
The wood of Andromeda ferruginea is heavy, hard, and close-grained, although not strong, with 
a satiny surface susceptible of receiving a beautiful polish; it contains numerous thin medullary rays, 
and is light brown tinged with red, with thick lighter colored sapwood. The specific gravity of the 
absolutely dry wood is 0.7500, a cubic foot weighing 46.74 pounds. 
First described by Walter in 1788, Andromeda ferruginea had been introduced twelve years 
earlier by the nurseryman James Gordon into English gardens,* from which it no doubt disappeared 
long ago; and this handsome plant, which covers itself every year with countless flowers, is now 
probably unknown in pleasure-grounds, which it would adorn at all seasons of the year. 
1 Hemsley, Bot. Biol. Am. Cent. ii. 282. Lyonia rigida, Nuttall, Gen. i. 266 (1818).— Don, Gen. Syst. 
2 Andromeda ferruginea, var. arborescens, Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. iii. 830. — De Candolle, Prodr. vii. 600. 
i. 252 (1803). 8 Andromeda rhomboidalis, Nouveau Duhamel, i. 192 (1801). 
Andromeda rigida, Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. i. 292 (1814). — Lod- Andromeda ferruginea, var. fruticosa, Michaux, 1. c. (1803). 
diges, Bot. Cab. ii. t. 430. Lyonia? rhomboidalis, Don, J. c. 831 (1834). 
# Aiton, Hort. Kew. ii.68.— Loudon, Arb. Brit. ii. 1109 (Lyonia). 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 
Pirate CCXXXIV. ANDROMEDA FERRUGINEA. 
. A flowering branch, natural size. 
. Diagram of a flower. 
A flower, enlarged. 
Rear view of a flower, enlarged. 
Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 
. A flower, the corolla removed, enlarged. 
. A stamen, enlarged. 
Cross section of an ovary, enlarged. 
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. An ovule, much magnified. 
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. A fruiting branch, natural size. 
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. A fruit, enlarged. 
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. A fruit after the opening of the valves, enlarged. 
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. A fruit, two of the valves removed, enlarged. 
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. A seed, enlarged. 
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. Vertical section of a seed, enlarged. 
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. An embryo, much magnified. 
