Ericaceae. 



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Elliottia. 



t( Family Ericaceae). 

 Shrubs, glabrescent: deciduous. 

 Twigs rather slender, somewhat 

 3-sided or becoming terete, with 

 firm thin bark: pith rounded ex- 

 cept below the nodes, continuous, 

 brownish. Buds solitary, sessile, 

 somewhat compressed and point- 

 ed, small, with about 3 exposed 

 scales of which the outer two fall 

 readily. Leaf-scars alternate, low, 

 shield-shaped: bundle-trace 1: sti- 

 pule spars lacking. 



Elliottia, like Gordonia, is one 

 of the particularly localized plants 

 of the southeastern United States, 

 rare in cultivation; and though 

 several localities have been found 

 for it, it has disappeared from 

 each in succession or at any rate 

 has eluded subsequent search. An 

 interesting note on it is to be 

 found in the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden for 

 August, 1901. 



Twigs brown, becoming gray: slightly glaucous. E. racemosa. 



