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9. CASSiOPE, Don. CASSIOPE. 



Calyx without bractlets, of 4 or 5 nearly distinct ovate sepals, imbricated in 

 the bud. Corolla broadly campanulate, deeply 4 - 5-cleft. Stamens 8 or 10 : 

 anthers fixed by their apex ; the ovoid cells each opening by a large terminal 

 pore, and bearing a long recurved awn behind. Pod ovoid or globular, 4-5- 

 celled, 4 - 5-valved ; the valves 2-cleft : placentas many-seeded, pendulous from 

 the summit of the columella. Seeds smooth and wingless. Small, arctic or 

 alpine evergreen plants, resembling Club-Mosses or Heaths. "Flowers solitary, 

 nodding on slender erect peduncles, white or rose-color. (Cassiope was the 

 mother of Andromeda. ) 



1. C. hypnoides, Don. Tufted and procumbent, moss-like (!' - 4' high) ; 

 leaves needle-shaped, imbricated ; corolla 5-cleft ; style short and conical. (An- 

 dromeda hypnoides, L.) Alpine summits of the Adirondack Mountains, New 

 York (Dr. Parry), White Mountains of New Hampshire, Mount Katahdin, 

 Maine (Mr. Young), and high northward. (Eu.) 



10. ANDKOMEDA, L. (in part). ANDROMEDA. 



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

 bud, but very soon separate or open. Corolla 5-toothed. Stamens 10 : anthers 

 fixed near the middle, the cells opening by a terminal pore. Pod globular, 5- 

 celled, 5-valved ; the many-seeded placentae borne on the summit or middle 

 of the columella. Shrubs, with umbelled, clustered, or panicled and racemed 

 (mostly white) flowers. (Fancifully named by Linna3us for A. polifolia, in al- 

 lusion to the fable of Andromeda.) 



1. ANDROMEDA proper. Corolla globular-urn-shaped: filaments bearded, 

 not appendaged : anthers short, the cells each surmounted by a slender ascending 

 awn : seeds turned in all directions, oval, with a close and hard smooth coat : 

 flowers in a terminal umbel : pedicels from the axils of ovate persistent scaly 

 bracts ; leaves evergreen. 



1. A. polifdlia, L. Smooth and glaucous (6' -18' high; leaves thick, 

 lanceolate or oblong-linear, with strongly revolute margins, white beneath. 

 Cold bogs, from Pennsylvania northward. May. (Eu.) 



2. PORTtlNA, Nutt. Corolla ovoid-urn-shaped and 5-angled : Jilaments not 

 appendaged : anthers oblong, the cells each bearing a long refiexed awn near the 

 insertion : seeds mostly pendulous, and with a loose cellular coat : flowers in axil- 

 lary and terminal naked racemes, formed in summer, but the blossoms expanding 

 the following spring: pedicels \-sided, br acted and with minute bractlets, re- 

 curved : leaves thick and evergreen. 



2. A. floribimda, Pursh. Branches bristly when young ; leaves lance- 

 oblong, acute or pointed (2' long), petioled, serrulate and bristly-ciliate ; racemes 

 dense, crowded in panicles. Moist hills, in the Alleghanies from Virginia 

 southward. April. A very leafy shrub, 2 -10 high, bearing abundance 

 of handsome flowers. 



3. PIERIS, Don. Corolla ovoid-oblong or cylindraceous : filaments slender and 

 awl-shaped, usually appendaged with a spreading or recurved bristle on each side 



