148 THE AZALEAS OF NORTH AMERICA 



Azalea atlantica Ashe in Bull. Charleston Mus. XIII. 26 (1917). Coker in 

 Jour. Elisha Mitchell Soc. XXXVI. 97, pi. 1, 7 (1920). 



Low stoloniferous shrub rarely more than 0.5 m. tall, with slender upright 

 usually sparingly branched or simple stems; young branchlets sparingly strigillose 

 and sometimes glandular hirsute, otherwise glabrous, occasionally slightly glau- 

 cescent, reddish brown at the end of the season, becoming grayish brown and 

 glabrous the second year; floral winter-buds with ovate, mucronulate, light brown 

 and white-ciliolate, glabrous or slightly silky-pubescent scales. Leaves obovate 

 to oblong-obovate, rarely elliptic, rounded or acutish and gland-tipped at apex, 

 cuneate at base, 3 to 6 cm. long and 1.5 to 2 cm. broad, setosely ciliate or minutely 

 serrulate-ciliate, glabrous above except the villose midrib and bright green or 

 bluish green, glabrous and sparingly strigillose and sometimes pubescent on the 

 midrib beneath, rarely strigillose on the surface, and glaucescent or bright green, 

 chartaceous at maturity, the secondary veins scarcely prominent beneath and 

 the veinlets obscure; petioles 1 to 5 mm. long, sparingly strigillose. Flowers ap- 

 pearing before or with the leaves in April or beginning of May in clusters of 4 to 

 10; pedicels about 1 cm. long, hirsute or glandular-hirsute, otherwise glabrous, 

 rarely minutely and slightly villose; sepals broadly ovate, small or occasionally 

 oblong and 2 to 4 mm. long, glandular-ciliate or sometimes eglandular; corolla 

 funnel-form, white, usually flushed pink or purple outside, very fragrant, the tube 

 cylindric, rather gradually dilated at apex, 2 to 2.5 cm. or rarely to nearly 3 cm. 

 long, outside with numerous short gland-tipped hairs, otherwise glabrous or only 

 slightly villose, glabrous or nearly so inside, the lobes ovate to ovate-oblong, acute, 

 1.3 to 2 cm. long, stipitate-glandular along the middle; stamens exserted, about 

 twice as long as the tube, the filaments hairy below the middle, the anthers 2 to 3 mm. 

 long; style exceeding the stamens, 4.5 to 5.5 cm. long, pubescent below the middle, 

 usually purplish above; ovary with setose, gland-tipped or glandless hairs. Cap- 

 sule ovoid-oblong, 1.5 to 2 cm. long, setose, the setae glandless or gland-tipped. 



DELAWARE. Kent County: Choptank Mills, May 29-30, 1904, 

 Witmer Stone (Herb. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.). 



DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Washington, Takoma Park, May 11, 1900, 

 T. A. Williams. 



VIRGINIA. Princess Anne County: May 9, 1898, Th. H. 

 Kearney (No. 1062; Nat.Herb. No.355,802). Nansemond County : 

 near Suffolk, April 30, 1898, Fr. Coville & Th. H. Kearney (No. 49; 

 Nat. Herb. No. 355,681). 



NORTH CAROLINA. Johnston County: Selma, April 23, 1918, 

 and November 19, 1919, T. G. Harbison (Nos. 1-8, 10). Craven 

 County : Newbern, April 7 and 18, 1918, April 20 and Nov. 20, 1919, 

 T. G. Harbison (Nos. 7, 14, 17, 23, 30, 101, 102, 115, 116, 117, 121, 131, 

 132). New Hanover County: Wilmington, April 2, 1880, C. S. 

 Sargent; April 14 and 15, 1911, C. S. Williamson; April 18 and 19, 1919, 

 T. G. Harbison (Nos. 36-41, 47, 48), without date, M. A. Curtis. 

 Eastern N. Carolina, without precise locality, April, 1888, G. McCarthy 

 (Nat. Herb. 42,633). 



SOUTH CAROLINA. Florence County : Ebenezer, wet Pine barren, 



