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DESCIUPTIOXS OF THE SHRUBS 



Fig, 427. — Sourwood. 



Fig. 428. — Stagger-bush. 



KEY TO THE ANDROMEDA-LIKE SHRUBS 



Leaves thick and evergreen (Privet Andromeda of the 2d * is nearly 



evergreen). (A.) 

 A. Flowers very small, ^ inch long, globular, noddnig and clus- 

 tered in axils of somev^^hat reduced leaves, Feb.-April. Shrub 

 or tree with scurfy twigs, 5-25 feet tall. Scurfy Andromeda 

 (417) — Andromeda (Xolisma) ferruglnea. 

 A. Flowers more elongated — usually twice as long as wide. (B.) 

 B. Flowers in one-sided racemes. (C.) 



C. Flower-clusters with large leaf-like bracts as long as tlie flow- 

 ers, April-June ; leaves densely covered with small round 

 scurfy scales. Shrub 1-4 feet high. Leather Leaf (418) 

 — Chamsedaphne calyculata. 

 C. Bracts, of the flower clusters, much smaller or absent, (D.) 

 D. Leaves large, 3-6 inches, with bristly-tipped teeth ; flow- 

 ers slender (nearly i inch long), April. 2-6 feet, hardy 

 with protection to New York. Catesby's Leucothoe 

 (410) — Leuc6thoe Catesbfei. 

 D. Leaves somewhat smaller without bristly teeth ; young 



