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solitary, on recurved peduncles. Calyx in 4 acute segments. 

 Corol small, white, with as many segments as the calyx. Berry 

 white. Taste of the leaves resembling that of G. procumbens. 

 There is some doubt with regard to the generic character of this 

 plant. Dr. Torrey thinks it will constitute the type of a new 

 genus. 



3. ANDROMEDA. Linn. 



Calyx 5-parted, minute, inferior. Corol ovate or subcy- 

 Sindrical, smooth ; border 5-cleft, reflexed. Stamens 10. 

 Capsule 5-cIled, 5-valved ; valves producing dissepiments 

 from the middle ; margins naked. Decandria. Monogynia, 



1. A. kypnoides Linn. : leaves imbricate, subulate, smooth ; pedun- 

 cles solitary, terminal, 1-flowered ; corol nodding, globose-campanu- 

 late. 



HAB. White Hills, N. H. and N. W. Coast. June. T?. Shrub 

 creeping, resembling a moss ; flowering branches erect. Flow- 

 ers white, tinged with red. 



2. A. polyfolia Linn. : leaves linear-lanceolate, convex, revolute, 

 whitish- glaucous beneath ; flowers in short terminal racemes. 



HAB. Sphagnous swamps. N. S. N. to Arc. Amer. June. *>. 

 Stem a foot high. Leaves varying from linear to oblong. 

 Flowers white, tinged with red. 



3. A. calyculata Linn. : leaves lanceolate-oblong, rather obtuse, ob- 

 soletely serrulate, subrevolute, ferruginous beneath ; racemes terminal, 

 leafy, subsecund ; pedicels short, solitary, axillary ; calyx bibracteate ; 

 corol oblong-cylindrical. 



HAB. Swamps. Can. to Car. W. to Miss. April, May. 1?. 

 -A shrub 3 4 feet high. Leaves coriaceous, covered with 

 white dots above, pale beneath. Flowers white, in terminal 

 leafy racemes. 



** Leaves deciduous. 



4. A. marianO' Linn. : leaves oval, somewhat acute, verj? entire, 

 smooth, subcoriaceous, paler beneath ; flowering branches nearly nak- 

 ed ; pedicels fasciculate ; calyx leafy ; corol ovate- cylindric ; anthers 

 simple at the summit. 



HAB. Sandy soils. N. J. to Flor. June, July. 1?. Shrub 2 3 

 feet high. Flowers white and pale red, large. . Anthers with two 

 minute awns at the base. 



. 5. A. racemosa Mich. : leaves oval-lanceolate, acute, serrulate, mem- 

 branaceous, smooth above, somewhat pubescent beneath ; racemes 

 terminal, secund, simple or branched ; corol oblong-cylindrical, an- 

 thers 4-awned at the summit. A. paniculata Walt. 



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