252 ERICACEAE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 



1. LEUCOTIIOE PROPER. Anthers awntess; the cells sometimes a bscurely 2- 

 pointcd: sti</ma de/tressed-capitate, 5-rayed: racemes sessile (dense), produced aL 

 the time of flowering from scaly buds in the axils of the coriaceous and shifting per- 

 sistent leaves of the preceding year, shorter than they: bract* persistent: braetlits 

 at the base of the s/tort pedicels. (Seed-coat loose and cellular, wiiKj-like.) 



1. L. axillaris, Don. Leaves lanceolate-oblong or oval, abruptly pointed or 

 acute, somewhat spinulose-scrrulate, on very short petioles; sepals broadly ovate* 

 (Andromeda axillaris, Lam.) Banks of streams, Virginia, in the low coun- 

 try, and southward. Feb. - April. Shrub 2 - 4 high. 



2. Li. Catesbcfei. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, serrulate with eili- 

 ate-spinulose appressed teeth, conspicuously petioled (3' -6' long) ; sepals ocate- 

 oblong, often acute. (Andr. Catesbsei, Walt. A. axillaris, Micfix. A. spinu- 

 losa, Pursh. L. spinulosa, Don.) Moist banks of streams, Virginia along the 

 mountains, and southward. May. Shrub 2 -4 high, with long spreading 

 or recurved branches. Flowers unpleasantly scented. 



$ 2. EtlBOTRYS, Nutt. Anthers awned: stigma simple: bractlets close to the 

 calyx, and, like the sepals, of a rigid texture, ovate or lanceolate, jointed: placenta 

 mere/i/ tpreading : flowers very short-pedicelled, in long one-sided racemes, which 

 mostly terminate the branches, formed with them in the summer, but the flower-buds 

 not completing their growth and expanding till the following spring : bracts awl- 

 shaped, deciduous : leaves membranaceous and deciduous, serrulate, the midrib and 

 veins beneath pubescent. 



3. Li. reev'erva. Branches and racemes recurved-spreading ; leaves lanceo- 

 late or ovate, taper-pointed ; sepals ovate; anther-cells l-awned ; pod 5-lobed; seeds 

 flat and cellular-icinged. (Andr. recurva, Buckley.) Dry hills, Allcghanies of 

 Virginia and southward. April. -Lower and more straggling than the next. 



4. Li. raccmosa. Branches and racemes mostly erect; leaves oblong or 

 oval-lanceolate, acute ; sepals ovate-lanceolate ; anther-cells each 2-awned ; pod not 

 lobed ; seeds angled and wingless. (Andr. racemosa & A. paniculata, L.) Moist 

 thickets, Massachusetts to Virginia near the coast, and southward. May, Juno. 

 Shrub 4 - 6 high. Corolla cylindrical. 



8. CASSANDRA, Don. LEATHER-LEAP. 



Calyx of 5 distinct rigid ovate nnd acute sepals, imbricated in the bud, and 

 witli a pair of similar brartlcts. Corolla cylindrical-oblong, 5-toothed. Sta- 

 mons 10 : anther-cells tapering into a tubular beak, and opening by a pore at the 

 apex, awnless. Pod depressed, 5-eelled, many-seeded; the pericarp of 2 ! 

 the outer 5-valved, and later the cartilaginous inner layer 10-valved. Seeds 

 flattened, wingless. Low and much-branched shrubs, with nearly evergreen 

 and coriaceous leaves, which are scurfy, especially underneath. Flowers white, 

 iu the axils of the upper small leaves, forming small 1-si.led leafy racemes; the 

 flower-buds formed in the summer and expanding early the next spring. (Cas- 

 sandia, a daughter of Priam and Hecuba.) 



1. '. e.alyciilfeta, Don. Leaves oblong, obtuse, flat. (Andromeda 

 oulyculuta, L.) Bogs, common northward. (Eu.) 



