118 ERICACEAE 



twigs; more or less flattened spongy pale pith; opposite raised 

 crescent-shaped minute leaf -scars with a single bundle-trace, 

 no stipule-scars; minute buds usually developing thr first 

 season; small sessile overlapping leaves; rather small slender- 

 stalked pale deeply parted cup-shaped gamopetalous flowers at 

 end of the branches; and round-ovoid small capsules. 

 Leaves linear, acute, upcurved. C. hypnoides. 



LETJCOTHOE. 



Evergreen or deciduous shrubs with brown wood with 

 minute diffused ducts and fine medullary rays ; slender more 

 or less 3-sided twigs; small somewhat 3-sided continuous pith; 

 alternate small somewhat raised crescent-shaped leaf-scars 

 with a single bundle-trace; no stipule scars; small round buds 

 with several exposed scales; lance-elliptical short-petioled ser- 

 rulate leaves; perfect urn-shaped gamopetalous white flowers 

 in one-sided racemes; and small depressed-globose many-seeded 

 capsules. 



1. Evergreen. 2. 

 Deciduous. 3. 



2. Leaves acute or short-acuminate. L. ax i liar is. 

 Leaves long-acuminate. L. Catesbaei. 



3. Racemes strongly recurving. L. recurva. 

 Racemes not recurved. L. racemosa. 



ANDROMEDA. Bog Rosemary. 



Evergreen small shrubs with rather shredding bark; few 

 slender subterete branches; roundish brown homogeneous 

 large-celled pith; alternate at first raised crescent-shaped small 

 leaf -scars with 1 bundle-trace; no stipule-scars; small ovoid 

 sessile solitary buds with 2 exposed scales; entire mostly very 

 revolute narrow leaves; few small pink or white perfect urceo- 

 late gamopetalous flowers in terminal umbels; and subglobose 

 small many-seeded capsules. 



Leaves glabrous: capsules brown, globose. A. Polifolia. 



White-tomentulose beneath: capsules glaucous. A. glaucophylla. 



