700 FLORA. 



orange spots within; capsule oblong, puberulent, 10-14 mm. high. In woods and 

 along streams, N. S. to Ont, Ohio and Ga. June-July. 



3. Rhododendron Catawbiense Michx. MOUNTAIN ROSE BAY. CATAWBA 

 OR CAROLINA RHODODENDRON. (I. F. .2751.) A shrub, 1-6 m. high. Leaves 

 oval or broadly oblong, mucronate, 7.5-13 cm. long, 3.5-5 cm. wide, dark green 

 above, pale or glaucous beneath; petioles stout, 12-35 mm - l n g; pedicels rather 

 stout, becoming glabrous; corolla lilac-purple, 3.5-5 cm. long, 5-6.5 cm. broad, 

 5-lobed, the lobes rounded; capsule linear-oblong, puberulent, 16-20 mm. high. 

 Mountain slopes and summits, Va. and W. Va. to Ga. May-June. 



5. MENZIESIA J. E. Smith. 



Shrubs, with alternate entire deciduous leaves, and small nodding greenish 

 purple slender-pedicelled flowers, in terminal corymbs or umbels, developed from 

 scaly buds. Calyx 4-toothed or 4-parted, persistent. Corolla urceolate-cylindric, 

 or nearly globose, 4-toothed or 4-lobed. Stamens 8; filaments subulate, flattish, 

 anthers linear-oblong, attached by their backs to the filaments, the sacs opening by 

 terminal pores or chinks. Disk obscurely 8-crenate. Ovary mostly 4-celled; 

 ovules numerous; style filiform; stigma 4-lobed or 4-toothed. Capsule 4-celled, 

 4-valved, many-seeded. Seeds slender, the testa membranous, prolonged at both 

 ends. Parts of the flower rarely in 5's. [Named in honor of Archibald Menzies, 

 surgeon and naturalist, died 1842.] About 7 species, natives of N. Am. and Japan. 



Filaments glabrous; seeds pointed at each end. i. M. pilosa. 



Filaments pubescent below; seeds long-appendaged at each end. 2. M, glabella. 



1. Menziesia pilosa (Michx.) Pers. ALLEGHANY MENZIESIA. (I. F. f. 2752.) 

 Shrub 6-18 dm. high; twigs chaffy and with stiff hairs. Leaves oval, oblong or 

 obovate, rough-hairy above, pale, glaucescent and sometimes chaffy on the veins 

 beneath, 2.5-5 cm. long, the margins ciliate; petioles 4-10 mm. long, pubescent; 

 flowers few, drooping; pedicels filiform, glandular, 12-25 mm - l n g; calyx-lobes 

 short and broad, hirsute-ciliate; corolla 4-6 mm. long; capsule ovoid, about 4 mm. 

 high, erect, glandular-bristly. In mountain woods, Penn. to Ga. May-June. 



2. Menziesia glabella A. Gray. SMOOTH MENZIESIA. (I. F. f. 2753.) 

 Similar to the preceding. Leaves obovate, obtuse and glandular-mucronulate at 

 the apex, pale, glaucous and glabrous or nearly so beneath, sparingly pubescent 

 above, 18-36 mm. long, the margins ciliolate; flowers 1-5 in the umbels, becoming 

 erect; pedicels 12-25 mm. long, glandular; corolla about 4 mm. long; capsule 

 oblong or obovoid, erect, about 4 mm. high, glabrous. Minnesota Point, Lake 

 Superior, west to Ore. and Br. Col. May-June. 



6. DENDRIUM Desv. [LEIOPHYLLUM Pers.] 



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

 and numerous small white or pinkish flowers, in terminal corymbs. Bracts coriaceous, 

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

 sile, spreading. Stamens 10, exserted; filaments filiform, glabrous; anthers small, 

 globose, didymous, attached by their backs to the filaments, the sacs opening lon- 

 gitudinally. Disk lO-lobed. Ovary 2-5 -celled; ovules numerous; style slender, 

 straight; stigma simple, truncate. Capsule ovoid, 2-5-valved from the top. [Greek, 

 a tree. ] A small genus of eastern N. Am. 



I. Dendrium buxifolium (Berg.) Desv. SAND MYRTLE. (I. F. f. 2754.) A 

 shrub with box-like foliage, widely branching, 1-4.5 dm. high. Leaves crowded, 

 oblong or oval, thick, obtuse, dark green and shining above, lighter and black- 

 dotted beneath, short-petioled, somewhat re volute -margined, 6-14 mm. long, the 

 midrib prominent; flowers in short corymbs, about 4 mm. broad; anthers purple; 

 pedicels 6-10 mm. long in fruit; capsule acute, slightly over 2 mm. high. In dry, 

 sandy pine-barrens, N. J. to Fla. April-June. 



7. CHAMAECISTUS OEder. [LOISELEURIA Desv,! 



A low glabrous straggling shrub, with small linear-oblong petioled obtuse entire 

 vergreen leaves, and small flowers on terminal erect pedicels. Calyx 5-parted, 

 the segments ovate-lanceolate, persistent. Corolla broadly campanulate, with 5 

 obtuse lobes. Stamens 5, included; filaments adnate to the corolla; anthers globose- 



