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ERICACEAE. 



[VOL. II. 



i. Menziesia pildsa (Michx.) Pers. Alleghany Menziesia. (Fig. 2752.) 



Azalea pilosa Michx. in Lam. Joura. Nat. Hist, i: 410. 1792. 



Menziesia pilosa Pers. Syn. x: 420. 1805. 



Menziesia globularis Salisb. Farad. Lond. 44. 1806. 



M. ferruginea var. globularis Sims, Hot. Mag. pi. 1571. 1813. 



A shrub, 2-6 high, the twigs more or less chaffy and 

 with stiff hairs. Leaves oval, oblong or obovate, thin, obtuse 

 or acutish and glandular-mucronulate at the apex, narrowed 

 at the base, rough-hairy above, pale, glaucescent and some- 

 times chaffy on the veins beneath, i / -2 / long, the margins 

 ciliate; petioles 2 // -5 // long, pubescent; flowers few in the 

 umbels, drooping; pedicels filiform, glandular, #'-i' long; 

 calyx-lobes short and broad, hirsute-ciliate; corolla urn- 

 shaped or globose-ovoid, *"-$" long; filaments glabrous; 

 capsule ovoid, about 2" high, erect, glandular-bristly; seeds 

 pointed at each end. 



In mountain woods, Pennsylvania to Georgia. May-June. 



a. Menziesia glabella A. Gray. Smooth 

 Menziesia. (Fig. 2753.) 



.Ifniziesia glabella A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. a: Part i, 39. 1878. 



Similar to the preceding specie*. Leaves obovate, obtuse 

 and glandular-mucronulate at the apex, pale, glaucous and 

 glabrous or very nearly so beneath, sparingly pubescent above, 

 9 // -i8 // long, the margins ciliolate; flowers 1-5 in the um- 

 bels, spreading, becoming erect; pedicels #'-i' long, glan- 

 dular; calyx-lobes short and broad, ciliate and pubescent; 

 corolla urn-shaped, about 2" long; filaments pubescent be- 

 low; capsule oblong or obovoid, erect, about 2" high, gla- 

 brous; seeds long-appendaged at each end. * 



Minnesota Point, Lake Superior, west to Oregon and British 

 Columbia. May-June. 



6. DENDRIUM Desv. Journ. Bot. (II.) x: 36. 1813. 

 [LEIOPHYLI.UM Perm. Syn. i: 477. 1805. Not Ehrh. 1780.] 



A glabrous evergreen shrub, with coriaceous entire small mostly opposite leaves, and 

 numerous small white or pinkish flowers, in terminal corymbs. Ilracts coriaceous, persist- 

 ent Calyx 5-parted, the segments rigid, oblong-lanceolate, acute, persistent. Petals 5, ses- 

 sile, ovate to obovate, spreading. Stamens 10, exserted; filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers 

 small, globose didymous, attached by their backs to the filaments, awnless, the sacs opening 

 longitudinally. Disk lolobed. Ovary 2-5-celled; ovules numerous; style slender, straight; 

 stigma simple, truncate. Capsule ovoid, septicidally 2-5-valved from the top. [Greek, a tree.] 



A small genus of eastern North America. 



i. Dendrium buxifdlium (Berg.) Desv. Sand 

 Myrtle. (Fig. 2754.) 



I.fdutn buxifolium Berg. Act Upsal. 1777: pi. J,f. i. 1777. 

 Dendrium buxifolium Desv. Journ. Bot. (II) i: 36. 1813. 

 Leiophyllum buxifolium Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. i: 483. 1819-20. 

 A low shrub with box-like foliage, widely branching, 

 4 / -i8 / high. Leaves crowded, oblong or oval, thick, 

 obtuse, dark green and shining above, lighter and black- 

 dotted beneath, short-petioled, somewhat revolute-mar- 

 gined, $"-7" long, the midrib prominent, the lateral 

 veins obscure; flowers several or numerous in short corymbs, 

 about "2" broad; anthers purple; pedicels filiform, 3 // -5 // 

 long in fruit; capsule acute, slightly over i" high, gla- 

 brous, puberulent, or roughened with short processes. 



In dry, sandy pine-barrens, New Jersey to Florida. The 

 same or a related species on the higher mountains of North 

 Carolina. April-June. 



