SWAMP LEUCOTHOE 



toothed, contracted at the throat. Stamens ten, in- 

 cluded ; ovary hve-celled, style inckided; capsule sub- 

 g-lobose. 



CASSIOPE 



Cass)opi' Jiypno\di's. 



Cassiope was the mother of Andromeda. The name has 

 no obvious appHcation to the plant. 



An arctic-alpine, tufted, evergreen shrub with the 

 aspect of a moss ; stems rising two to four inches 

 high. Leaves loosely imbricate, linear, acute, flat 

 above, convex be- 

 neath, one-twelfth to 

 one-sixth of an inch 

 long. The flowers are 

 open bells, white or 

 rose-color, one-fourth 

 to one-third of an inch 

 across, solitary, nod- 

 ding on slender erect 

 peduncles. 



Found on the sum- 

 mits of the higher mountains of New England and the 

 Adirondacks of New York ; throughout arctic Amer- 

 ica, also in arctic Europe and Asia. 



Cassiope, Cassiope hvpnoidcs. After Britton & Brown. 



SWAMP LEUCOTHOE 



Leiicothoc raCi))iosa. 



Leucothoc, a sea-nymph, one of the fifty daughters of Xe- 

 reus : possibly referring to the plant as loving wet places. 



Five to twelve feet high ; found in swamps and moist thickets. 

 Ranges from Ma.ssachusetts to Florida and Louisiana, mostly 

 near the coast. Suckers freely. 



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