CHAP. LXIX. 



£RICA CE^. LYO N/^. 



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jtt Si 1. Z. SPECIOUS A D. Don. The showy-fioicej-ed Zenobia. 



Identification. D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., July, 1834 ; Don's Mill, 3. p. 830. 

 Sifnonyme. Andromedu specidsa Mic/iJr. Ft. Bur. Amer., 256. ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 551. 

 Engravings. Bot. Cab., t. 551. ; and our figs. 898. 



Description. Leave.s oval, obtuse, mucronate, crenate, or serrate, veiny. 

 Flowers white, drooping, disposed in racemes. Branches in the flower-bear- 

 ing part naked of leaves. (Do7i's Mill., iii. p. 830.) 

 A very ornamental little shrub, native of North Ca- 

 rolina, in swamps. This very handsome species was 

 introduced in 1800. It grows to the height of 2 ft. 

 or 3 ft., and flowers in June. 



898 



899 + 



Miller the following forms are enumerated and de- 



+ 

 Varieties. In Don's 

 scribed : — 



ji * Z.s. 2 nitidfi VuY&h. Fl. Amer. Sept., i. p. 294., under Andromeda 

 cassineibWvL Vent. Malm., 79. ; and our fir. 899. — Leaves oblou"- 

 ovate, serrate, green on both surfaces. Flowers white. 

 J* * Z. 5. 3 j^iili'cruli'nta Pursh Fl. Ainer. Sept., i. p. 294'., under An- 

 dromeda speciosa ; A. pulverulenta Bartram Itin., 476., Curt. Bot. 

 ilfag., t. 667. ; A. cassine^bWa f3 Vent. Hort. Cels, 60.; A. speciasa 

 var. y glauca IVnts. Dcnd. Brit., t. 26. ; A. dealbata Lindl. Bot. Reg., 

 t. 1010.; A. ovata Soland. MS. in Herb. Banks.; and our fg. 900.^— 

 Leaves roundish-ovate, distantly crenate, covered with white j)owder, 

 as are the branches. Flowers white. 



Genus VIII. 



m 



LYO^N/y4 Nutt. The Lyonia. Lin. St/st. Decandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 1. p. 268. ; D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17. p 158 • Don's 



Mill., 3. p. 8.30. 

 Synonyme. Andrumedn sp. I.in. and various authors. 

 Derivation. In commemoration of JoAn I.yon, an indefatigable collector of North American plants, 



who fell a victim to a dangerous epidemic amidst those savage and romantic mountains which 



had so often been the theatre of his labours. (Dun's Mill., iii. p. 830.) 



Description. Evergreen and deciduous shrubs, and also a tree. Natives 

 of North America, and bearing the common character of the plants of the 

 order, both in respect to beauty, soil, situation, propagation, and culture. 



A. Leaves evergreen. 

 • L L. ferrugi'nea Nutt. The rusty-Zoo^vwg Lyonia. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., p. 266. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 830. 



Synonymes. Andr6medrt ferrugfnea Walt. Ft., 138., I'etU. Malm., t. 80. ; A. ferrugi'nea fi fruticbsa 



Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 252. 

 Engraving. Vent. Malm., t. 80. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Shrubby, evergreen. Leaves on long petioles, coriaceous 

 obovate, usually obtuse, quite entire, with hardly revolute edges, and co- 



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