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cence ; margins of valves closed by 5 other external nerve valves. Seeds 

 acicular, imbricated. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen or deciduous; usually 

 membranous and downy. Flowers for the most part terminal, disposed in 

 racemose panicles. Shrubs, natives of North America. 



A. Leaves evergreen. 

 * 1. L. FERRUGI / NEA Nutt. The rusty-looking Lydnia. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., p. 266.; Don's Mill., 3. p. 

 ~ ionym.es. Andrdmeda ferruginea Walt. Fl. 138. ; A. fei 

 ' Miclix. Fl. Bar. Amer. 1. p. 252. 



830. 

 rruginea /3 fruticbsa 



1052. L. ferruginea. 



Si/no?/ 



Miclix. Fl. L 

 Engravings. Vent. Malm., t. 80. ; and our Jig. 1052. 



Spec. Char., $c. Shrubby, evergreen. Leaves on long pe- 

 tioles, coriaceous, obovate, usually obtuse, quite entire, with 

 hardly revolute edges, and covered with brown, umbilicate, 

 bran-like scales, as is every other part of the plant. Flowers 

 axillary, 3 or 5 together, upon pedicels. Corolla small, 

 ovate, globose, white inside, rusty-looking outside. (Don's 

 Mill.) An evergreen shrub. Georgia, Florida, and Mexico, 

 in pine woods. Height 3ft. to 5 ft. Introduced in 1784. 

 Flowers white ; June and July. 



* 5 2. L. RI'GIDA Nutt. The rigid-leaved Lyonia. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 1. p. 2GG. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 830. 



Synonymes. Andromeda ferruginea Willd. Sp. 2. p. 609. ; A. ferruginea 1 arborescens Michx. Fl. 



Bar. Amer. 1. p. 252. ; A. rigida Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 1. p. 292. 

 Engravings Bot. Cab., t. 430. ; and our fig. 1053. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves crowded, coriaceous, rigid ; their petioles short ; 

 their disks cuneate-lanceolate, acute, entire, convex, with revolute edges, 

 and clothed with brown, umbilicate, bran-like scales, as is 

 every other part of the plant. Flowers produced, in Britain, 

 in April and May ; axillary, several together. Corolla globose, 

 white inside. Closely akin to L. ferruginea ; but the two 

 are distinguishable by their different habits, especially by 

 their times of flowering. (Don's Mill.) An arborescent 

 evergreen shrub or low tree. Carolina and Florida, in barren 

 sandy woods. Height 15ft. to 20ft.; in British gardens 

 3ft. to 5ft. Introduced in 1744. Flowers white; April 

 and May. Capsule brown. 



Nearly allied to the preceding species, but of a different habit, 

 and flowering at a different season. 



_ 3. L. MARGINALIA D. Don. The marginated-leaved Lyonia. 



Identification. D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 



159. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 830. 

 Synonymes. Andrdmeda marginata Du Ham. Arb. ; A 



coriacea Willd. Sp. 2. p. 613., Ait. 

 ncc. 1. . 1 



Ear. 3. t. 465. 



ea Willd. Sp. 2. p. 613., Ait. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 70. ; A. 

 lucida Lam. Encyc. 1. p. 157. ; A. mariiina Jacq. Icon. 



1(!64. L. marginhta. 



Engravings. Bot. Mag., t. 1095. ; Jacq. Icon. Rar. t 465. , 

 and our Jig. 1054. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Branch- 

 lets indistinctly 3- 

 sided. Leaves coria- 

 ceous, oval, acuminate, / 

 quite entire, glabrous, 

 and very finely punc- 

 tured ; with the mid- 

 rib running throug'h 

 the deflexed margin.. 

 Flowers upon pedi- 

 o o 3 



1055. L. m. rubra. 



