316 ERICACEAE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 



mostly in the shade of evergreens, Maine to Minn., and southward to N. Ga. ; 

 also far northward. July. The bright red berries (formed of the calyx) and 

 the foliage have the well-fcnown spicy-aromatic flavor of the Sweet Birch. 

 Usually called Wintergreen, or sometimes in the interior Tea-berry. Eastward 

 it is often called Checkerberry or Partridge-berry (names also applied to Mitch- 

 ella, the latter especially so), also Boxberry. 



7. ANDROMEDA, L. 



Calyx without bractlets, of 5 nearly or partly distinct sepals, valvate in the 

 bud, but very soon separate or open. Corolla urceolate (in ours), 5-toothed. 

 Stamens 10; anthers fixed near the middle, the cells opening by a terminal 

 pore. Capsule globular, 5-celled, 5-valved ; the many-seeded placenta borne 

 on the summit or middle of the columella. Seeds pendulous or spreading. 

 Shrubs, with umbelled, clustered, or panicled and racemed (mostly white) 

 flowers. (Fancifully named by Linnaeus in allusion to the fable of Andromeda.) 



* Anthers awned ; capsule more or less globose ; leaves thick and evergreen. 



1. A. polifolia, L. Glabrous, 6- 18' high; leaves linear to lanceolate- 

 oblong, strongly revolute, white beneath ; flowers in terminal umbels ; pedicels 

 from axils of persistent scaly bracts ; each anther-cell with a slender terminal as- 

 cending awn. Wet bogs, N. J. and Penn. to Minn., and northward. 



2. A. floribftnda, Pursh. Very leafy, 2-6 high ; young branchlets, etc., 

 strigose-hairy ; leaves lanceolate-oblong, acute or acuminate, ciliate-serrulate, 

 glandular-dotted beneath (2' long) ; racemes crowded in short terminal panicles, 

 densely flowered ; each anther-cell with a slender deflexed awn on the back. Moist 

 hillsides, in the Alleghanies from Va. to Ga. 



# # Anthers awnless ; capsule 5-angled, with a thickened ridge at the dorsal sut- 

 ures ; leaves thinnish and deciduous. 



3. A. Mariana, L. (STAGGER-BUSH.) Mostly glabrous, 2-4 highj 

 leaves oblong or oval (1 -3' long) ; fascicles of nodding flowers racemose on 

 naked shoots ; filaments 2-toothed near the apex ; capsule ovate-pyramidal, trun- 

 cate at the contracted apex. Low grounds, R.I. to Fla. ; also in Tenn. and Ark. 

 Foliage said to poison lambs and calves. 



4. A. ligUStrina, Muhl. Minutely pubescent, 3-10 high; leaves obo 

 vate to lanceolate-oblong (1 -2' long), serrulate or entire; racemes crowded in 

 naked or leafy panicles ; filaments flat, not appendaged ; capsule globular. 

 Wet grounds, Canada to Fla. and Ark. Var. PUBESCENS, Gray, is a form 

 with dense soft pubescence. Va. to Ga. 



8. OXYDENDRUM, DC. SORREIXTREE. SOUR-WOOD. 



Calyx without bractlets, of 5 almost distinct sepals, valvate in the bud. 

 Corolla ovate, 5-toothed, puberulent. Stamens 10; anthers fixed near the 

 base, linear, awnless, the cells tapering upward and opening by a long chink. 

 Capsule oblong-pyramidal, 5-celled, 5-valved; the many-seeded placentae at 

 the base of the cells. Seeds all ascending, slender, the thin and loose reticu- 

 lated coat extended at both ends into awl-shaped appendages. A tree with 

 deciduous, oblong-lanceolate, pointed, soon smooth, serrulate leaves, on slender 

 petioles, and white flowers in long one-sided racemes clustered in an open pan 



