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9. CASSIOPE, Don. Cassiope. 



Calyx without bractlets, of 4 or a nearly distinct ovate sepals, imbricated in 

 the bud Corolla broadly campanulate, deeply 4 - 5-cleft. Stamens 8 or 10 : 

 anthers fixed by their apex ; the ovoid cells each opening by a large terminal 

 pore, and bearing a long recurved awn behind. Pod ovoid or globular, 4 - 5- 

 celled, 4 - 5-valved ; the valves 2-cleft : placentae many-seeded, pendulous from 

 the summit of the columella. Seeds smooth and wingless. — Small, arctic or 

 alpine evergreen plants, resembling Club-Mosses or Heaths. Flowers solitary, 

 nodding on slender erect peduncles, white or rose-color. (Cassiope was tho 

 mother of Andromeda.) 



1. C. Iiypiioiclcs, Don. Tufted and procumbent, moss-like (l'-4' 

 high); leaves needle-shaped, imbricated ; corolla 5-cleft; style short and coni- 

 cal. (Andromeda hypnoides, L.) — Alpine summits of the Adirondack Moun- 

 tains, New York (Dr. Parry), White Mountains, N. Hampshire, and Mount 

 Katahdin, Maine (Mr. Young), and high northward. (Eu.) 



10. ANDROMEDA, L. (in part.) .(Andromeda, Zenobia, Lyonia, 



Nuit., &Pieris, Don.) 



Calyx without bractlets, of 5 nearly or partly distinct sepals, valvate in tho 

 early bud, but very early separate or open. Corolla 5-toothed. Stamens 10 : 

 anthers fixed near the middle, the cells opening by a terminal pore. Pod glob- 

 ular, 5-celled, 5-valved ; the many-seeded placenta; borne on the summit or 

 middle of the columella. — Shrubs, with umbclled, clustered, or paniclod and 

 racemed (mostly white) flowers. (Fancifully uamed by Linnaus for A. poli* 

 folia, in allusion to the fable of Andromeda.) 



§ 1. ANDROMEDA proper. — Corolla ylobular -urn-shaped : filaments bearded, 

 not appendaged : anthers short, the cells each surmounted by a slender ascending 

 awn : seeds turned in all directions, oval, with a close and hard smooth coat : flow- 

 ers in a terminal umbel : pedicels from the axils of ovate persistent scaly bracts : 

 leaves evergreen. 



1. A. polifdlia. L. Smooth and glaucous (6' -18' high) ; leaves thick, 

 lanceolate or oblong-linear, with strongly revolute margins, white beneath. — 

 Cold bogs, from Pennsylvania northward. May. (Eu.) 



§2. PORTUNA, Nutt. — Corolla ovoid-urn-shaped and 5-angled : filaments not 

 appendaged : anthers oblong, the cells each bearing a long reflexed awn near the in- 

 sertion : seeds mostly pendulous, and with a loose cellular coat : flowers in axillary 

 and terminal racemes, which are formed in summer, but the blossoms expanding the 

 following spring : pedicels l-sided, bracfed and with minute bractlets: leaves thick 

 and evergreen. 



2. A. floribunda, Pursh. Branches bristly when young ; leaves lance- 

 oblong, acute or pointed (2' long), petioled, serrulate and bristly-ciliate ; racemes 

 dense, crowded in panicles. — Moist hills, in the Alleghanies from Virginia 

 southward. April. — A very leafy shrub, 2° -10° high, bearing abundance of 

 handsome flowers. 



