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MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS 



margins, glaucus beneath; flowers in few-flowered drooping umbels; bracts 

 persistent; calyx lobes triangular; corolla urn-shaped; stamens 10, anther with 

 a slender terminal awn. 



Distribution. From Newfoundland to New Jersey; Michigan to British 

 Columbia and Alaska; Europe and Asia. 



Andromeda floribunda, Pursh. Mountain Fetter-bush 



A leafy shrub from 2-6 feet high; branches nearly erect, bristly strigose 

 pubescent; leaves oblong to ovate-lanceolate, ciliate and glandular dotted be- 



Fig. 385. Andromeda (Andromeda Polifolia). 

 Common in the North, especially in bogs and swamps. 

 (Ada Hayden.) 



neath ; flowers white in densely flowered panicles ; corolla 5-angled ; stamens 10 ; 

 anthers without appendages; capsule somewhat globose, shorter than the style. 

 Distribution. In the mountains of Virginia to Georgia. 



Lyonia, Nutt 



Shrubs. Leaves coriaceous and evergreen or thin and deciduous ; flowers 

 in racemes or panicles, white ; calyx of 5 nearly distinct sepals ; stamens 5 ; 

 filaments hairy and often toothed or appendaged; anthers unappendaged ; cap- 

 sule 5-angled, dorsal suture with a thickened ridge; seeds with a thin testa. 



Lyonia mariana, B. & H. Stagger-bush 



A glabrous shrub with black dots, from 2-4 feet high ; oblong or oval leaves, 

 smooth above, slightly pubescent on the veins; flowers in nodding fascicles, 

 racemose on nearly leafless branches; segments of calyx acute; corolla ovoid, 

 white or pinkish; stamens 10; anther filaments 2-toothed near the apex; capsule 

 ovate, as large as the sepals. 



