ENUMERATION OF THE SPECIES 135 



(1824). De Candolle, Prodr. VII. 716 (1839). Gray, Man. 268 (1848); 

 ed. 5, 299 (1872). M. A. Curtis, Descript. Trees & Shrubs, 98 (Geol. Nat. 

 Hist. Surv. N. Car. III. Bot.) (I860). Willis, Cat. PL N. Jersey, 33 

 (1874). Kellermann, Cat. Ohio PL 129 (in Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio, VII. 

 pt. 2) (1893), in part. Britton & Brown, III. Fl. II. 558, fig. 2743 

 (1897). Clute, FL Upp. Susquehanna, 69 (1898). Britton, Man. 698 

 (1901). Gattinger, FL Tennessee, 131 (1901). Porter, Fl. Pennsylv. 238 

 (1903). Small, FL S. E. U. S. 883 (1903); in N. Am. Fl. XXIX. 42 

 (1914). Shreve & others, PL Life Maryland, 466 (1910). Stone in Ann. 

 Rep. N. J. State Mus. 1910, 612, t. 95 (1911). Millspaugh, Liv. FL W. 

 Virginia, 323 (in W. Va. GeoL Surv.) (1913). Schaffner, Cat. Ohio Vase. 

 PL 204 (inOhioBiol. Surv. I.) (1914), in part. Taylor, FL Vicin. N. Y. 488 

 (in Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. V.) (1915). 



Rhododendron venustum Salisbury, Prodr. 287 (1796), in part. 



Azalea peridymenoides Michaux, FL BOT. -Am. I. 151 (1803). Pursh, Fl. 

 Am. Sept. I. 152 (1814). 



Azalea peridymena Persoon, Syn. I. 212 (1805). 



Azalea nudiflora /3. peridymenoides, Heynhold, Nomend. Bot. Hort. I. 108 

 (1840). 



Anthodendron nudiflorum Reichenbach in Moessler, Handb. Gewachsk. ed. 2, 

 I. 309 (1827) .* 



An upright shrub, usually 1 to 2, rarely to 3 m. tall; young branchlets slightly 

 pubescent and sparingly strigose or nearly glabrous, becoming dull brown or 

 grayish brown; winter-buds brown, glabrous or slightly pubescent, with ovate 

 abruptly acuminate finely ciliate scales; leaves elliptic to oblong or obovate to 

 oblong-obovate, acute or abruptly acuminulate, rarely obtusish, gland-tipped, 

 cuneate at base, 3 to 8 cm. long and 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, finely pubescent on the 

 midrib above, strigillose and sometimes sparingly pubescent on the midrib beneath, 

 finely ciliate on the margins, bright green above and scarcely paler beneath; 

 petioles 2 to 4 mm. long, strigillose and sometimes slightly pubescent. Flowers 



1 PRELINNEAN SYNONYMS: Azalea scapo nudo floribus confertis terminatridbus 

 staminibus dedinatis, Linnaeus, Hort. Cliff. 69 (1737). Chamaerhododendros Vir- 

 giniana Peridymeni flore ampliori minus odorato, Duhamel, Traite Arb. 1. 160 (1755) 

 and doubtfully Cistus Virginiana Peridymeni flore ampliori et minus odarato [sic] 

 Plukenet, Mant. 49 (1700). 



ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS. COLORED PLATES: Trew, PL Sel. Ehret. t. 48 

 (1750). Schmidt, Oester. Baumz. III. t. 170 (1800), good plate of the typical 

 form. Bot. Reg. II. t. 120 (1816), as A. nudiflora var. carnea. Loddiges, Bot. 

 Cab. I. t. 51 (1818), as A. nudiflora var. rubra. Guimpel, Otto & Hayne, Abb. 

 Fremd. Holzgew. t. 110 (1825), apparently var. glandifera with white flowers. 

 Emerson, Trees & Shrubs Mass. ed. 2, II. 440 t. (1875), pink flowers. Jour. 

 N. Y. Bot. Gard. XIV. 79, pi. (1913). House, Wild Fl. N. Y. II. 200, pi. 154 

 (1920). BLACK FIGURES: Loudon, Arb. Brit. II. 1140, fig. 943 (1838), after Bot. 

 Reg. t. 120. AndrS, PL Terre de Bruybre, 179, fig. 6 (1864). Gard. XXIX. 550 

 (1886), same as London's. Mottet, Diet. Prat. Hort. I. 303, f. 359 (1892), after 

 Andre. Newhall, Shrubs N. E. Am. fig. 83 (1893). Miller & Whiting, Wild 

 Flow. N. E. St. 379 (1895). Bailey, Cyd. Am. Hort. I. fig. 172, 173 (1900); Stand. 

 Cyd. Hort. V. fig. 3389, 3390 (1916). Keeler, Our North. Shrubs, 347 (1903). 

 Stevens, III. Guide Flow. PL, t. 114, fig. 2 (1910). Rep. N. Jersey St. Mus. 

 1910, t. 15 (1911). Amer. For. XXII. 655, fig. (1916). HABIT FIGURES: 

 Gard. Mag. V. 218, fig. (1907). Country Life Am. XI. 496 (1907). 



