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pistillum i< a roundish germ : the style cylindric, 

 longer than the stamens, and permanent ; stigma 

 obtuse: the pcricarpium is a capsule, roundish, 

 live-cornered, five-celled, five-valved, opening 

 at the corners, partitions contrary, and the seeds 

 arc very numerous, roundish, and shining. — 

 Oh. It differs from erica in number. In 

 some species the corolla is ovate, in others per- 

 fectly campanulate. The anthers in some are 

 awned, in others awnless. 



The species are numerous ; but those princi- 

 pally cultivated are : l . A. arlorea, Tree An- 

 dromeda, or Sorrel Tree ; 2. A. Mariana., Mary- 

 land Andromeda; 3. A. pal [folia, Marsh An- 

 dromeda; 4. A. Dabcccia, Cantabrian Heath, or 

 Trailing Andromeda; 5. A. paniculata, Pani- 

 cled Andromeda; 6*. A. racemosa, Branching 

 Andromeda; 7. A. coriacea, Thick-leaved An- 

 dromeda ; 8. A. acuminata, Acute-leaved An- 

 dromeda; 9. A. cahjculata, Calycled Andro- 

 meda; 10. A. sa/icifo/ia, Willow-leaved An- 

 dromeda; 11. A. biixifolia, Box-leaved Andro- 

 meda. 



The first is a shrub growing ten or twelve 

 feet high m Virginia ; but in Carolina it rises 

 to the height of twenty feet. The branches are 

 very slender, bending downwards: the leaves 

 are oblong, oval, pointed, alternate : the flowers 

 grow in long, naked spikes from the sides of 

 the branches : thev are of a herbaceous colour, 

 and ranged on one side of the stalk. 



In the second species the leaves are oval, en- 

 tire, and alternate : the corolla rather cylindric- 

 bell-shaped ; anthers without awns. The corol- 

 las are shaped like those of the Arbutus, and 

 are of a herbaceous colour. They appear in June 

 and July, and sometimes are succeeded by fruit, 

 which seldom ripens in this climate. There are 

 two varieties ; one with oval leaves, another with 

 oblong leaves. It is a native of North Ame- 

 rica. 



The third is an elegant little shrub, from six 

 or eight inches to a foot in height, erect and 

 branched. The leaves sessile, rigid, elliptical, 

 their edges turned back ; the under surface 

 glaucous : the peduncles long, of a bright red 

 colour, arising from the summits of the branches, 

 each supporting one oval, nodding flower. The 

 calyx is red, and the corolla of a pink colour. 

 The anthers awned ; style white, with a purple 

 stisrma. It is a native of America. 



1 here are several varieties ; as, with broad 

 oblong leaves; with spear-shaped leaves; with 

 narrow linear leaves. 



The fourth species has the stalks and branches 

 low and trading. The leaves are spear-shaped, 

 rcvolute, and alternate. The flowers arc borne 

 on a single terminal raceme, on alternate undi- 



vided subviscid pedicels, with a linear bracte 

 under each. 1 lie calyx four-leaved, awl-shaped, 

 erect, purplish, one-fourth of the length of the 

 coroila, and deciduous. The corolla purple, cy- 

 lindric-oval, twice as large as that of the third 

 species ; the mouth quadrifid and a little con- 

 tracted ; the divisions bent back. The stamens 

 eight, with white filaments : anthers the length 

 of the filaments, scarcely shorter than the co- 

 rolla, brown, sagittate, awnless, truncate at 

 top, with two holes : the style filiform, the 

 length of the corolla ; stigma obtuse, subquad- 

 rifid. The seed vessel is a four-celled tour- 

 valved capsule. It grows well in the Irish bogs, 

 and flowers in June and July. It is observed 

 by Martyn, that this species has the habit or air 

 of an Andromeda, but the character of an Erica. 



The fifth has the stem about four feet high : 

 the leaves are oblong, cremated and alternate : the 

 flowers grow in loose spikes from the ends of 

 the branches, and are shaped like those of the 

 Arbutus, but arc a little longer, and appear in 

 July ; but do nor produce seeds in this country. 

 In this the anthers are awned. It is a native of 

 Virginia. 



The sixth species differs from the above in 

 the racemes being less panicled ; in having a 

 linear, lanceolate, stiff, green, deciduous, bracte, 

 under each flower, longer than it ; in the cap- 

 sules retaining the style ; and in the leaves being 

 more serrate. 



In the seventh species the branches are three- 

 carnered ; the leaves ovate, entire, and shining. 

 It flowers from July to August, and is a native 

 of North America. 



The eighth is a shrub about four feet in heigth, 

 upright, and the whole of it smooth, with round 

 branches, which are leafy to a considerable ex- 

 tent. The leaves alternate, petioled, two inches 

 long, either quite entire, or very obscurely and 

 unequally crenulate, coriaceous, somewhat rigid, 

 very smooth beneath, almost lucid on the upper 

 surface, reticular with small veins when looked 

 at through a magnifying glass: the racemes 

 are axillary, solitary : there are also others which 

 come out from the branches tnemselves without 

 any leaf; they are many-flowered, much shorter 

 than the leaves, and spread out horizontally : 

 the pedicels slender and pendulous: the flowers 

 smell like honey : the perianth is green : the 

 corolla snow-white, almost cylindric, with a flat 

 base, and a small, obtuse, five-toothed, rcvo- 

 lute border. It flowers in July and August. It 

 is a native of North America. 



The ninth species is a low shrub : the leaves 

 shaped like those of the Box-tree, and of the 

 same consistence; with small punctures on them. 

 The flowers grow in short spikes from the extre- 



