MARSH ANDROMEDA: COWBERRY 301 



or less ferruginous beneath. Petiole short and thick. 

 Venation pinnate. Dying leaves yellow. 



-r -r- Leaves not more than 30 mm. long, 

 strongly revolute and very glaucous 

 beneath. 



Andromeda polifolia, L. Marsh Andromeda. Leaves 

 very small, evergreen, 15 30 x 3 7 mm., oblong-lanceo- 

 late to linear-lanceolate ; alternate, strongly revolute, 

 entire, acute, sub-sessile. Leathery, stiff; shining dark 

 green above and very glaucous beneath, with a yellow 

 midrib. 



[The rare evergreen species Menziesia polifolia, 

 St Dabeoc's Heath, with more or less ovate leaves, 

 revolute at the margins and white-tomentose beneath, 

 and the still rarer M. ccerulea with linear, minutely 

 serrulate leaves, green on both sides, may be mentioned 

 here.] 



Leaves small and Box-like, not more 

 than about 30 mm. long ; more or less 

 ovate to obovate ; not in tufts; margins 

 revolute. 



Jf Leaves 15 30 mm. long, punctate 

 with minute brown depressed dots be- 

 neath; margins often minutely and 

 faintly crenate-serratulate. 



Vaccinium Vitis-idcea, L. Cowberry, Red Whortle- 

 berry. Leaves hard, coriaceous, glabrous, shining green 

 above, and resembling those of the Box, but alternate ; 

 evergreen, obovate, elliptical, or oblong, paler and punctate 

 with brown dots beneath ; apex obtuse or faintly retuse 

 and with a thick glandular mucronate point, margins revo- 

 lute and entire or faintly crenate-serrate ; shortly petiolate 

 (1 2 mm.); 15 30 x 1 2 mm. Autumn leaves red. 



