252 ERICACEiE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 



§ 1. LEUC0T110E proper. — Anthers awnless; the cells sometimes cbscurely 2- 

 pointcd: stigma depressed<apitate, 5-rayed: racemes sessile (dense), produced at 

 the time of flowering from scaly buds in the axils of the coriaceous and shining per- 

 sistent leaves of the preceding year, shorter than they : bracts persistent : bractlets 

 at the base of the short pedicels. (Seed-coat loose and cellular, icing-like.) 



1. £j. axillaris, Don. Leaves lanceolate-oblong or oval , abruptly pointed or 

 acute, somewhat spinulose-serrulate, on very short petioles; sepals broadly ovate. 

 (Andromeda axillaris, Lam.) — Banks of streams, Virginia, in the low coun- 

 try, and southward. Feb. - April. — Shrub 2° - 4° high. 



2. fij, Catesl>3fei. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, serrulate with eili- 

 ate-spinulose appresscd teeth, conspicuously petiolcd (3' -6' long) ; sepals ovate' 

 oblong, often acute. (Andr. Catesbaji, Walt. A. axillaris, Michx. A. spinu- 

 losa, Pursht L. spinulosa, Don.) — Moist banks of streams, Virginia along the 

 mountains, and southward. May. — Shrub 2° -4° high, with long spreading 

 or recurved branches. Flowers unpleasantly scented. 



§ 2. EtJBOTRYS, Nutt. — Anthers owned: stigma simple: bractlets close to the 

 calyx, and, like the sepals, of a rigid texture, ovate or lanceolate, pointed : placentas 

 merely spreading : flowers very short-pcdicelled, in long one-sided racemes, ivhich 

 mostly terminate the branches, formed with them in the summer, but the floiver-buds 

 not completing their growth and expanding till the following spring : bracts awl- 

 shaped, deciduous : leaves membranaceous and deciduous, serrulate, the midrib and 

 veins beneath pubescent. 



3. ]L. l'CCtkrva. Branches and racemes recurved-spreading ; leaves lanceo- 

 late or ovate, taper-pointed; sepals ovate; anther-cells l-awncd ; pod 5-lobed; seed's 

 flat and cellular-ivinged. (Andr. recurva, Buckley.) — Dry hills, Alleghanics of 

 Virginia and southward. April. -Lower and more straggling than the next. 



4. li. 1'acemosa. Branches and racemes mostly erect ; leaves oblong or 

 oval-lanceolate, acute ; sepals ovate-lanceolate ; anther-cells each 2-awncd ; pod not 

 lobed ; seeds angled and wingless. (Andr. racemosa & A. paniculata, L.) — Moist 

 thickets, Massachusetts to Virginia near the coast, and southward. May, June. 

 — Shrub 4° - 6° high. Corolla cylindrical. 



8. CASSANDRA, Don. Leather-Leaf. 



Calyx of 5 distinct rigid ovate and acute sepals, imbricated in the bud, and 

 with a pair of similar bractlets. Corolla cylindrical-oblong, 5-toothed. Sta- 

 mens 10 : anther-cells tapering into a tubular beak, and opening by a pore at the 

 apex, awnless. Pod depressed, 5-celled, many-seeded ; the pericarp of 2 layers, 

 the outer 5-valved, and later the cartilaginous inner layer 10-valved. Seeds 

 flattened, wingless. — Low and much-branched shrubs, with nearly evergreen 

 and coriaceous leaves, which are scurfy, especially underneath. Flowers white, 

 in the axils of the upper small leaves, forming small 1-sided leafy racemes; the 

 flower-buds formed in the summer and expanding early the next spring. ( Cas- 

 sandra, a daughter of Priam and Hecuba.) 



1. C calycillata, Don. Leaves oblong, obtuse, flat. (Andromeda 

 calyculata, L.) — Bogs, common northward. (Eu.) 



