634 ERICACEAE (HEATH FAMILY) 



and bearing a long recurved awn behind. Capsule 4-5-celled ; placentae many- 

 seeded, pendulous from the summit of the columella. Seeds smooth and wing- 

 less. Small arctic or alpine evergreen plants, with scale-like or needle-like 

 leaves, and solitary white or rose-colored flowers nodding on slender erect 

 peduncles. (Named for Cassiope, mother of Andromeda.) 



1. C. hypnoides (L.) D. Don. Tufted and procumbent, moss-like, 1-12 cm. 

 high ; leaves needle-shaped, loosely imbricated ; corolla 5-cleft ; style short and 

 conical. Alpine summits, Me., N. H., and N. Y., cliffs of L. Superior, and 

 high north w. June, July. (Eurasia.) 



16. LEUC6THOE D. Don. FETTER BUSH 



Calyx of 5 nearly distinct sepals, imbricated in the bud. Stamens 10 ; anthers 

 naked, or the cells with 1 or 2 erect awns at the apex, opening by a pore. 

 Capsule depressed, more or less 5-lobed, 5-celled, 5-valved, the sutures not 

 thickened ; the many-seeded placentae borne on the summit of the short colu- 

 mella. Seeds mostly pendulous. Shrubs with petioled and serrulate leaves, 

 and white scaly-bracted flowers in dense axillary or terminal spiked racemes. 

 (Leucothoe, daughter of Orchamus, King of Babylonia, referred to by Ovid.) 



* Anthers awnless ; stigma 5-rayed ; racemes sessile, dense, with persistent bracts, 



in the axils of thick and shining evergreen leaves ; calyx not bracteolate. 



1. L. axillaris (Lam.) D. Don. Leaves lanceolate-oblong or oval, abruptly 

 pointed or acute, somewhat spinulose-serrulate, on very short petioles; sepals 

 broadly ovate. Low grounds, Va. to Fla. and Ala. Feb.-Apr. 



2. L. Catesbadi (Walt.) Gray. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, ser- 

 rulate with ciliate-spinulose appressed teeth, conspicuously petioled, 7-15 cm. 

 long; sepals ovate-oblong, often acute. Moist banks of streams, Va. to Ga. 

 along the mts. May. Shrub 1 m. high, with long spreading or recurved 

 branches. Flowers exhaling the unpleasant scent of Chestnut-blossoms. 



* * Anthers awned'; stigma simple ; flowers very short-pediceled, in long one- 



sided racemes mostly terminating the branches; bracts deciduous; leaves 

 membranaceous and deciduous, serrulate ; calyx bibracteolate. 



3. L. reciirva (Buckley) Gray. Branches and racemes recurved-spreading ; 

 leaves lanceolate or ovate, taper-pointed ; sepals ovate ; anther-cells \-awned ; 

 pod o-lobed ; seeds flat and cellular-winged. Dry hills, Alleghenies of Va. to 

 Ala. Apr. Lower and more straggling than the next. 



4. L. racembsa (L.) Gray. Branches and racemes mostly erect; leaves 

 oblong or oval-lanceolate, acute ; sepals ovate-lanceolate ; anther-cells each 

 2-awned ; pod not lobed; seeds angled and wingless. Moist thickets, Mass, to 

 Fla. and La., near the coast. May, June. Shrub 1-3 m. high. Corolla 

 cylindrical. 



17. ANDR6MEDA L. 



Calyx of 5 nearly or partly distinct sepals, v-alvate in the bud, but very 

 soon separate or open. Corolla urceolate. Stamens 10 ; filaments unap- 

 pendaged ; anthers fixed near the middle, each cell bearing 1-2 awns. Capsule 

 subglobose, 5-celled, 5-valved, the sutures not thickened ; the many -seeded 

 placentae borne on the summit or middle of the columella. Evergreen shrubs, 

 with umbeled, clustered, or panicled and racemed pink or white flowers. 

 (Fancifully named by Linnaeus for Andromeda of Greek mythology.) 



* Anthers awned; capsule more or less globose; leaves thick and evergreen. 



1. EUANDK6MEDA Gray. Corolla globose-urceolate ; each anther-cell 

 bearing a slender ascending awn; seeds oval, with a smooth and shining 

 crustaceous coat. 



1. A. Polifblia L. Low shrub, with elongate creeping base ; stem simple 

 or with ascending branches, 5-30 cm. high ; leaves linear to narrowly oblong, 



