CHAP. LXIX. 



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- a 1. Z. SPECIO V SA D. Don. The showy-flowered Zenobia. 



Identification. D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., July, IS -54 ; Don's Mill., .5. P 



>i.y/c. Andronicdrt spt-ciosa Micltx. Fl. Jior. Amer., 25 i. ; </</. Zto/. fA., t. 551. 



ngravings. Bot. Cab., t. 551. ; and our Jigs. 898. 



Description. Leaves oval, obtuse, mucronate, crenate, or serrate, veiny. 

 Flowers white, drooping, disposed in racemes. Branches in the flower-bear- 

 ing part naked of leaves. (Don's Mi//., iii. p. 830.) 

 A very ornamental little shrub, native of North Ca- 

 rolina, in swamps. This very handsome species was 

 introduced in 1800. It grows to the height of 2ft. 

 or 3 ft., and flowers in June. 



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Vnrictics. In Don's Miller the following forms are enumerated and de- 

 scribed : 



j* * Z. . 2 n&ufa Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., i. p. 294., under Andromeda 

 cassinefoYia Vent. Mfi/m., 79. ; and our Jig. 899. Leaves oblong- 

 ovate, serrate, green on both surfaces. Flowers white. 



j* tt Z. s. 3 pulvernlenta Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., i. p. 294., under An- 

 dromeda speciosa; A. pulverulenta Bartram Itin., 476., Curt. Hot. 

 Mag. , t. 667.; A. cassinelolia, /3 Vent. Hort. Cets, 60.; A. speciosa 

 var. y glauca Wats. Dend. Brit. y t. 26. ; A. dealbata Lindl. Bot. Reg., 

 t. 1010.; A. ovata So/and. MS. in Herb. Banks.; and our^g. 900. 

 Leaves roundish-ovate, distantly crenate, covered with white powder, 

 as are the branches. Flowers white. 



GENUS VIII. 



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LYO V N7.4 Nutt. THE LYONIA. Lin. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Nutt Gen. Amer., 1. p. 268. ; D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 158. ; Don's 



Mill., 3. p. 830. 



Synonyme. Andromeda sp. Lin. and various authors. 

 Deriv 



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ivation. In commemoration of John Lyon, an indefatigable collector of North American plants, 

 who fell a victim to a dangerous epidemic amidst those savage and romantic mountains which 

 had so often been the theatre of his labours. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 830.) 



Description. Evergreen and deciduous shrubs, and also a tree. Natives 

 of North America, and bearing the common character of the plants of the 

 order, both in respect to beauty, soil, situation, propagation, and culture. 



A. Leaves evergreen. 

 * 1. L. FERRUGI'NEA Nutt. The rusty-looking Lyonia. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., p. 266. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 830. 



Synonumes. Andr6meda ferrugfnea Walt. FL, 1.38., Vent. Malm., t 80. ; A. ferrugfnea 3 fruticbsa 



Mir'/ij: Ft. Kor. Amer., 1. p. 252. 

 Engraving. Vent Malm., t. 80. 



Spec. Char. y $c. Shrubby, evergreen. Leaves on long petioles, coriaceous, 

 obovate, usually obtuse, quite entire, with hardly revolute edges, and co- 



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