252 ERICACEAE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 



$ 1. LEUCOTHOE PROPER. Anthers awnless; tJte cells sometimes obscurely 2- 

 pointed: stigma depressed-capitate, 5-rayed: racemes sessile (dense), produced at 

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

 sistent leaves of the preceding year, shorter than they : bracts persistent : bractlets 

 at the base of the short pedicels. ( Seed-coat loose and cellular, wing-like. ) 



1. I-, axil 1 arts, Don. Leaves lanceolate-oblong or oval, atnruptly pointed or 

 acute, somewhat spinulose-serrulate, on very short petioles; sepal* broadly ovate., 

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

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



2. It. CatCSbffei. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, serrulate with cili- 

 ate-spinulose apprcssed teeth, conspicuously petioled (3' -6' long) ; sepals ovate- 

 oblong, often acute. (Andr. Catesbaei, Walt. A. axillaris, Michx. 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. 



$ 2. EtfBOTRYS, Nutt. Anthers awned: stigma simple: bractlcts close to the 

 calyx, and, like the sepals, of a rigid texture, ovate or lanceolate, pointed : placentoB 

 merely spreading : flowers very short-pedicelled, in long one-sided racemes, which 

 mostly terminate the brandies, formed with them in the summer, but the flower-bud* 

 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. It. recurva. 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-winged. (Andr. recurva, Buckley.} Dry hills, Alleghanies of 

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



4. It. racemosa. Branches and racemes mostly erect; leaves oblong or 

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

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

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

 Shrub 4 - 6 high. Corolla cylindrical. 



8. CASSANDRA, Don. LEATHER-LEAF. 



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

 with a pair of similar bractlets. Corolla cylindrical-oblong, 5-toothed. Sta- 

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

 apex, awnless. Pod depressed, 5-celled, many-seeded ; the pericarp of 2 layers, 

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

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

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

 in the axils of the upper small leaves, forming small 1 -sided leafy racemes ; the 

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

 sandra, a daughter of Priam and Hecuba. ) 



1. C. calyciilsYta, Don. Leaves oblong, obtuse, flat. (Andromeda 

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



