276 



Ericaceae. 



Leiophyllum. Sand Myrtle. 

 (Family Ericaceae). 



Small shrubs of sandy regions 

 near the coast: evergreen. Twigs 

 very slender, subterete: pith mi- 

 nute, continuous. Buds sessile, 

 solitary, ovoid, appressed, with 

 about 2 exposed scales. Leaf- 

 scars opposite or the pairs more 

 or less broken and then 4-ranked, 

 minute, crescent-shaped or 3- 

 sided, raised: bundle-trace 1: sti- 

 pule-scars lacking. Leaves small, 

 subelliptical, entire, distinctly 

 petioled. The minute-beaked 5- 

 valved clustered pale capsules 

 may be present in winter. (Den- 

 drium). 



The sand myrtle, which makes 

 its northern limit in the pine bar- 

 rens of New Jersey, is pictured 

 photographically in an amply il- 

 lustrated volume on the plants of 

 southern New Jersey by Witmer Stone, constituting the Re- 

 port of the New Jersey State Museum for 1910. 

 Glabrous: leaves obscurely dotted beneath. L. buxifolium. 



