ERICACEAE ANDROMEDA 



Leucothoe Catesbaei, (Walt.) Gray 



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Shrubs 2-4 feet high; leaves ovate-lanceolate; taper-pointed; serrulate, ever- 

 green, with spinulose teeth ; racemes dense, many-flowered ; bracts borne at the 

 bases of the short petioles; corolla narrowly cylindric; anthers awned; capsules 

 depressed. 



Leucothoe racemosa, Gray 



Shrubs 4-10 feet high ; branches and racemes mostly erect ; leaves oblong to 

 ovate, generally acute at each end ; sepals ovate-lanceolate ; anther cells 2-awned ; 

 stigma capitate ; capsule depressed-globose ; seeds smooth and wingless. 



Distribution. Moist thickets and swamps from Massachusetts, to Florida, 

 and Louisiana. 



Poisonous properties. Both species are known to be poisonous in the Alle- 

 ghany Mountain region to all kinds of stock; probably contain the same principles 

 found in other plants of this order. 



Fig. 384. Swamp Leucothoe (Leucothoe racemosa). A well 

 known poisonous plant of the Alleghany Mountain region and the 

 Southern states. (Charlotte M. King.) 



Andromeda, L 



Shrubs or small trees; leaves evergreen, short petioled; flowers in panicles, 

 racemes or umbellate clusters ; calyx persistent, without bractlets ; corolla globose, 

 urn-shaped, 5-parted; stamens 10, included; anthers fixed near the middle and 

 opening by a pore ; ovary S-celled with columnar style ; capsule globular and 

 5-celled, many seeded; seeds smooth. A small genus of 13 species found in 

 Eastern Asia, the Himalayas, North America and Europe. 



Andromeda Polifolia L. Wild Rosemary. Fetter-bush 

 A glabrous shrub 6-19 inches high, coriaceous ; leaves with strongly revolute 



