Andromeda. ERICACEAE. 3^ 



\nA^?^l?:.h, ^'''"^ r/°f °' '^ high, glabrous and glaucous: the firm-coriaceous 

 and evergreen Kosemary-Iike leaves from linear to lanceolate-oblong, witli stronKly revo- 

 lute margins white beneath: flowers (early spring) in a small termtal umbel: peSs 

 from the axils of ovate persistent scaly bracts, naked. - Fl. Lapp. t. 1, f. 3 • Fl Dan t 54 

 A. rosmann,foha, Pursh Fl. i. 291. A. glaucophyUa, Link, Enum i. 394.- Wet bogs &c 

 tlZ.^^ f'T ^"? ^^""^^^^"'^' ^»d on the Pacific side from Norfolk Sound t^ the 



§ 2. Zenobia. Corolla open-campanulate, obtusely 5-lobed : calyx barely 5- 

 parted thickish, with the thin margins valvate in the early bud : filaments naked, 

 abruptly dilated at base : anthers lanceolate ; each cell surmounted by a pair of 

 slender ascending awns : capsule depressed-globose, obtusely 5-lobed, and some- 

 what cannate at the dorsal sutures : placentae on the middle of the very short 

 columella : seeds oval, angled, with a rather soft minutely reticulated coat — 

 Zenobia, Don, &c. 



A. speciosa Michx. Shrub 2 to 4 feet high, glabrous, often glaucous: leaves cori- 

 aceous but deciduous, oval or oblong (an inch or two long), commonly crenulate or 

 sparsely serrulate, reticulate-veiny : flowers in umbel-like fascicles from axillary buds 

 mostly racemose on naked brandies of the preceding year: pedicels naked, drooping- 

 calyx-lobes triangular, short: corolla white (a third of an inch high and wide) Varies 

 Irom briglit green to chalky-white with a dense glaucous bloom. — Fl. i. 256- Pursh Fl i 

 294 ; Lodd. Cab. t. 55L A. nitida, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 970. A. cassine/oha nud'a, Vent.'cel's ' 

 1. 60. Zenohta speciosa, Don, 1. c. The following relate to the var. puloerulenta, Michx. i e' 

 the white glaucous form : Andromeda pulvendenta, Bartr. Trav. 476, with plate ; Sims Bot" 

 Mag. t. 667. A. cassinefolia pulverulenta, Vent. Malm. t. 79. A. dealbata, Lindl. Bot 'lleg 

 t. 1010, a state with corolla 5-parted. — Low pine-barrens, Florida to N. Carolina. 



§3. PoRTUNA. Corolla ovate-urceolate, 5-toothed: calyx deeply 5-parted; 

 the lobes firm-coriaceous and thick-edged, ovate-lanceolate, strictly valvate in the • 

 bud : filaments not appendaged : anthers oblong ; the cells each with a slender 

 deflexed awn on the back at the junction with the filament: capsule globose, not 

 thickened at the sutures : placent-e borne on the summit of the columella : seeds 

 mostly scobiform: fiowers in axillary and terminal racemes, formed during the 

 preceding summer, remaining naked until early the following spring, when the 

 (white) blossoms unfold : pedicels minutely bracteate and 2-3-bracteolate : leaves 

 coriaceous, evergreen. — Portuna, Nutt. 1. c. Pieris § Portuna & § PMUyreoides, 

 Benth. & Hook. 1. c. (Here also belong A. Cubensis, Griseb., A. Japoiiica, Thunb., 

 and A.formosa, Wall.) 



A. floribunda, Pursh. Shrub 2 to 6 feet high, very leafy : young branchlets, &c., 

 stngose with rusty or dark hairs : leaves tliinnish-coriaceous, lanceolate-oblong acute or 

 acuminate, minutely serrulate and bristly-ciliate, rounded at base, somewhat glandular- 

 dotted beneath (2 inclies long) : racemes crowded in a terminal sliort panicle, densely 

 flowered : corolla (3 lines long) strongly 5-angled and at base 5-saccate, twice the lengtii of 

 the calyx: seeds linear-oblong with a very loose cellular coat, large, all pendulous from 

 tlie summit of the cell.-Fl. i. 293; Bot. Mag. t. 1566; Bot. Reg. t. 807. A. {Leucolhoe} 

 viontana, Buckley in Amer. Jour. Sci. xlv. 172. Leucothoe. flonhunda, Don, 1. c. Zenobia 

 flonhunda, DC. 1. c. PoHuna floribunda, Nutt. 1. c— Moist shaded hills, in the AUeglia- 

 nies, Virginia to Georgia. 



A. phillyreif olia, Hook. Shrub a foot or two high, nearly glabrous : branches slender, 

 alternately leafy and scaly-bracteate : leaves firm-coriaceous, oblong or lanceolate-oblong' 

 obtuse, more or less serrulate or few-toothed near the apex (an inch or two long) : racemes' 

 solitary and axillary, loosely 4-12-flowered : bracts deciduous : corolla ovoid, not angled, 

 twice the length of the calyx : seeds small and short, borne on all sides of the placentce,' 

 which occupy the middle of the cells of the depressed-globular umbilicate capsule; the 



