WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK 2OJ 



or pointed, oblanceolate or oblong in shape, covered on both sides and more 

 densely so beneath with small, round, scurfy scales, especially when young, 

 one-half to i^ inches long, the margins slightly toothed, the upper leaves 

 reduced to bracts which subtend the flowers. Old leaves often bronzed or 

 brownish in contrast to the bright green of the new leaves. Flowers white, 

 fragrant, solitary in the axils of the upper small leaves, forming a terminal, 

 leafy, one-sided raceme; corolla oblong-cylindric, about one-fourth of an 

 inch long, narrowed at the throat, the margin with five recurved teeth. 

 Stamens ten, not projecting from the flower. Fruit a globular capsule, 

 about one-eighth of an inch in diameter. 



In swamps, bogs and wet places, Newfoundland to Alaska, south to 

 Georgia, Illinois, Michigan and British Columbia. Flowering in May and 

 June. 



Wild Rosemary; Marsh Holy Rose; Moorwort 

 Andromeda polifolia Linnaeus 



Plate 1593 



A small bog shrub, i to 3 feet high, simple or with a few branches. 

 Leaves linear to oblong-lanceolate, pointed or blunt at the apex, narrowed 

 at the base, the margins strongly revolute, dark green above, whitish 

 beneath, i to 2\ inches long, one-sixth to one-third of an inch wide, 

 on very short petioles. Flowers white, drooping, few or several in terminal 

 umbels, the pedicels or flower stalks one-third to one-half of an inch long. 

 Corolla almost globular, one-sixth to one-fourth of an inch in diameter, 

 much constricted at the throat, with five small, recurved teeth, the ten 

 stamens not projecting from the flower. Fruit capsules about one-sixth 

 of an inch in diameter. 



In sphagnum bogs, Labrador to Alaska, south to New Jersey, Pennsyl- 

 vania, Michigan and British Columbia. Also in northern Europe and Asia. 

 Flowering in May and June. 



