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and thin cellular-reticulated testa : flowers (small and white) racemose or fascicled : 



bracts minute and deciduous. — Lyonia, Nutt. Gen. i. 266 ; Benth. & Hook Gen. 



ii. 587. 



* Lepidote-scurfy, not pubescent : flowers fascicled in the axils of persistent coriaceous leaves. 



A. ferruginea, Walt. Low shrub, or taller and arborescent : leaves rigid, cuneate-obo- 

 vate, rhombic-obovate, or cuneate-oblong, entire, with revolute margins (1 or 2 inches long), 

 smooth and shining above, or obscurely lepidote when young, grayish or ferrugineous- 

 lepidote beneath, much exceeding the fiower-clusters : capsule oval-pentagonal, barely 

 2 lines long. — Car. 138; Michx. Fl. i. 252 ; Vent. Malm. t. 80. A. ferruginea & A. rigida, 

 Pursh, Fl. i. 295; Lodd. Cab. t. 430. Lyonia ferruginea & L. rigida, Nutt. 1. c — Michaux's' 

 two forms are pretty well marked, viz. var. arborescens, witli narrower less reticulated 

 leaves, usually crowded ; and var. fruticosa, with sparser leaves conspicuously reticulated, 

 mostly cuneate-obovate or rhomboidal. To this belongs A. rhomboidcdis, " Veill." in Duham.' 

 Arb. ed. nov. i. 192, therefore Leucothoe rhomboidalis, Don, 1. c. — Sandy pine barrens 

 S. Carolina to Florida. (W. Ind. & Mex. ?) ' 



* * Somewhat pubescent, but not scurfy : leaves deciduous : flowers racemose-panicled. 



A. ligustrina, Muhl. Shrub 3 to 10 feet high, much branched : pubescence minute : 

 leaves from obovate or broadly ovate to lanceolate-oblong (1 or 2 inches long), thinnish, 

 obscurely serrulate or entire : racemes few-leaved at base, or mainly from separate buds 

 (in summer), crowded in naked or leafy panicles : pedicels either scattered or fascicled : 

 corolla globose, barely 2 lines long : capsule globular : seeds oblong, obtuse at each end. — 

 Ell. Sk. i. 490; Torr. Fl. 421; Gray, Man. I. c. A. paniculala, Ait.; Michx. Fl. i. 254, 

 partly, not L. (except as to syn. Pluk.). A. racemosa, Lam., not L. Vaccinium ligustrinum, L. 

 Spec. 1. 351. Lyonia paniculala, Nutt. 1. c. L. Jigusfrina, DC. 1. c. L. paniculala, caprecffolia, 

 salicifolia, & multifJora, Wats. Dendr. t. 37, 127, 128. — Wet grounds, Canada to Florida and 

 Arkansas. 



Var. pubescens. A form cinereous with dense and soft fine pubescence. A. fron- 



dosa, Pursh, Fl. i. 295 (anthers not awned in specimen of herb. Enslin) ; Ell. 1. c' A. 

 paniculala, va.v. foliosifora, Michx. I c, in part. Lyonia frondosu, 'Nutt. I. c. — Virginia? to 

 Georgia. 



9. OXYDl^NDRUM, DC. Sorrel-tree, Sour-wood. (Composed of 

 ol^vg, sour, and dt'vdQOV, tree, from the acid foliage. Oxydendron, Benth. & Hook., 

 but DeCandolIe's form follows the analogy of Epidendrum.) — A single species, 

 witk Peach-like foliage : fl. summer. 



O. arboreum, DC. Tree 15 to 40 feet high: leaves membranaceous and deciduous, 

 oblong or lanceolate (4 to 6 inches long), acuminate, serrulate, glabrous, or at first glaucous,' 

 veiny, slender-petioled : inflorescence a panicle of many-flowered racemes terminating the 

 leafy shoots of the season, appearing in early summer: flowers tardily opening: corolla 

 from cylindraceous- to ovate-conical (3 hues long), white, minutely pubescent. -Prodr. 

 vii. 601. Andromeda arhorea, L. (Catesb. Car. t. 71) ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 905; Michx. 

 f. Sylv. iii. t. 7; Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. 1, t. .30. Lyonia arborea, Don, 1. c. — Rich woods, 

 Penn., Ohio, and along the Alleghany region to Florida. 



10. LEUC6TH0E, Don. (Mythological; the name of one of the fifty 

 daughters of Nereus.) North and Sotith American and Japanese shrubs, of 

 various habit ; with entire or serrulate leaves, and racemose chiefly white flowers. 

 — Don in Edinb. Jour. xvii. 159 ; Gray, Man. 1. c. Leucothoe & Agnrista (at 

 least mainly), Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 584, 586. {Agarista of Don is evidently 

 founded on the Mauritius and Bourbon species, the section Agaurm, DC., geinis 

 Agauria, Benth. & Hook., to which are added S. American species, all or chiefly 

 belonging to Leucothoe.) 



§ 1. EuLEUCOTHOE. Calyx not bracteolate, 5-parted ; the divisions usually 

 only early or slightly overlapping, herbaceous or membranaceous : anthers awn- 



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