ANDROM'EDA CALYCULATA, latifoiia. 



BROAD-LEAVED CALYCLED ANDROMEDA. 

 Class. Order. 



DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



Natural Order. 



ERICEjE. 



No. 20. 



Andromeda, a celebrated classic beauty of anti- 

 quity, the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiope. She 

 was bound by the nymphs to a rock, to be devoured 

 by a sea monster, because her mother proudly pre- 

 ferred her beauty to theirs; but Perseus, rescued 

 and married her. Calyculata, double calyxed, from 

 the presence of two minute ovate leaflets, which 

 grow on the base of the calyx. 



This pretty evergreen shrub, with some trifling- 

 variations in its growth, is found native nearly all 

 round the northern parts of the globe ; as in Sibe- 

 ria, Sweden, and North America. Being highly 

 astringent to the taste, its medicinal qualities are 

 probably of a tonic nature. The combined circum- 

 stances of situation and properties in the Androm- 

 eda calyculata are such as M. Pastie of the Royal 

 Academy of Sciences of Paris may advance in sup- 

 port of his new hypothesis. He thinks it of the 

 highest importance, in making ourselves acquainted 

 with the medicinal properties of plants, that we at- 

 tend to their native situations; and even conceives 

 this of greater consequence than knowing to what 

 genus they belong, or the chemical principles that 



