Heath ( Rricacece) 169 



Found, in dry places, in woods, etc., from Rhode Island 

 and Pennsylvania southward. 



A shrub two to three feet high, worthy of cultivation. 

 Its common name is due to its reputation for poisoning 

 young cattle. 



Fig. 77. Privet Andromeda. A. tigustrina, Muhl. 



Flowers, scarcely one sixth of an inch long, downy, globu- 

 lar, white, crowded in terminal clusters ; the clusters 

 usually leafless, sometimes with two small leaflets at 

 the base. Flower-stems, downy. Anthers, without 

 awns. June, July. 



Leaves, one to three inches long, entire or fine-toothed, 

 more or less downy, reverse egg-shape and oval to 

 lance-shape. 



Fruit, globular, five-celled, five-angled, many-seeded ; a 

 capsule. September. 



Found, in swampy ground from Canada southward , 

 Common. 



A shrub three to ten feet high. 



(4) Genus Leucothoe, Don. 



Fig. 78. Leucothoe. L. racembsa (L.), Gray. 



Flowers, white, fragrant, with very short stems crowded 

 in long, one-sided, usually erect spikes, mostly at the 

 ends of the branches, each spike two to four inches 

 long, with twelve to thirty downward- turned 

 blossoms. Corolla, five-toothed, cylindrical or some- 

 what egg-shaped. Calyx, with two egg-shaped 



