1 66 Heath (Ericacece) 



Leaves, simple, alternate, entire (or in Privet Andromeda, 

 A. ligustrina, sometimes fine-toothed). 



Fruit, globular to egg-shape, five-celled, many-seeded ; a 

 capsule. 



Fig- 75- Marsh Andr6meda. Wild Rosemary. A. polifolia, L. 



Flowers, nearly round, crowded in terminal drooping 

 clusters. Corolla, about one quarter inch long, rose- 

 tinted. Calyx, white, tipped with red. Anther-cells, 

 each terminating in a slender ascending awn. Flower- 

 stems, about one half an inch long, pearl-white, spring- 

 ing from pointed and hollowed bracts of the same 

 color at their base. June. 



Leaves, evergreen, very narrow to oblong lance-shape, 

 one to three inches in length by one sixth to one 

 quarter of an inch in width ; very smooth, edges 

 rolled back, thick, dark-green above, whitish beneath. 



Fruit, globular, five-celled, many-seeded. A capsule. 



Found, in wet ground from New Jersey and Pennsylvania 

 to Minnesota, and far northward. 



A very interesting evergreen shrub, six inches to two 

 feet high. 



Linnaeus, in his Tour in Lapland, describes this 

 shrub and tells why he chose for it the poetical name of 

 Andromeda : 



u Andromeda polifolia was now (June 12) in its highest 

 beauty, decorating the marshy grounds in a most agree- 

 able manner. The flowers are quite blood-red before 



