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9. CASSIOPE, Don. CASSIOPE. 



CarjX without bractlcts, of 4 or 5 nearly distinct ovate sepals, imbricated in 

 the bud Corolla broadly campanu late, deeply 4- 5-cleft. Stamens 8 or 10 : 

 anthers fixed by their apex ; the ovoid cells each opening by a large terminal 

 pore, and bearing a long recurved awn behind. Pod ovoid or globular, 4-5- 

 celled, 4 - 5-valvcd ; the valves 2-cleft : placentae many-seeded, pendulous from 

 the summit of the columella. Seeds smooth and wingless. Small, arctic or 

 alpine evergreen plants, resembling Club-Mosses or Heaths. Flowers solitary, 

 nodding on slender erect peduncles, white or rose-color. (Cassiope was the 

 mother of Andromeda.) 



1. C. liypnoides, Don. Tufted and procumbent, moss-like (l'-4' 

 high) ; leaves needle-shaped, imbricated ; corolla 5-cleft ; style short and coni- 

 cal. (Andromeda hypnoides, L.) Alpine summits of the Adirondack Moun- 

 tains, New York (Dr. Parry), White Mountains, N. Hampshire, and Mount 

 Katahdin, Maine (Mr. Young), and high northward. (Eu.) 



1O. ANDROMEDA, L. (in part.) (Andromeda, Zenobia, Lyonia, 

 Nutt., & Pieris, Don.) 



Calyx without bractlets, of 5 nearly or partly distinct sepals, valvate in th 

 early bud, but very early separate or open. Corolla 5-toothed. Stamens 10 : 

 anthers fixed near the middle, the cells opening by a terminal pore. Pod glob- 

 ular, 5-cclled, 5-valvcd; the many-seeded placentae borne on the summit or 

 middle of the columella. Shrubs, with umbclled, clustered, or panicled and 

 racemed (mostly white) flowers. (Fancifully named by Linnseus for A. poli- 

 folia, in allusion to the fable of Andromeda.) 



1. ANDROMEDA PROPER. Corolla globular -urn-shaped : filaments bearded, 

 not appendaged : anthers short, the cells each surmounted by a slender ascending 

 awn : seeds turned in all directions, oval, with a close and hard smooth coat : flow- 

 ers in a terminal umbel : pedicels from the axils of ovate persistent scaly bracts : 

 leaves evergreen. 



1. A. polifolia, L. Smooth and glaucous (6'- 18' high) ; leaves thick, 

 lanceolate or oblong-linear, with strongly re volute margins, white beneath. 

 Cold bogs, from Pennsylvania northward. May. (Eu.) 



2. PORTUNA, Nutt. Corolla ovoid-urn-skaped and 5-angled : filaments not 

 appendaged: anthers oblong, the cells each bearing a low; rcjlexed awn near the in- 

 sertion : seeds mostly pendulous, and with a loose cellular coat : flowers in axillary 

 and terminal racemes, which are. formed in summer, but the blossoms expanding the 

 following spring : pedicels 1-sided, bracted and with minute brac.tl.ets: haves thick 

 and evergreen. 



2. A. iloriltfiiHln, Pursh. Branches bristly when young ; leaves lance- 

 oblong, acute or pointed (2' long), petioled, serrulate and bristly-ciliate ; racemes 

 dense, crowded in panicles. Moist hills, in the Alleghanics from Virginia 

 southward. April. A very leafy shrub, 2 -10 high, bearing abundance of 

 handsome flowers. 



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