6 ADDISONIA 
All things considered this fetter-bush is worthy of wide cultiva- 
tion. It grows rapidly and is hardy far north of ‘ts natural geo- 
graphic range. 
A writer of the southern mountains, struck by the beauty of 
the subject of these notes, wrote of it in the following verses: 
Down, where the valley’s brooklet gushes, ; 
Sweet Rose, bewitches with her blushes 
In June all comers; 
Fair Lily, too, so tall and slender. 
Hath wooers who shall homage render 
Through sunlit summers. 
But not your gayest garden flowers 
Can match with those I find above 
On the high summits that I love, 
Buds nursed to life by mountain showers. 
‘There on the lofty heights that loom 
Above the blue world far below you, 
Pieris fair shall proudly show you 
The wonder of her snows in bloom 
Finer than all your heath and heather, 
A thousand milk white bells together. 
The mountain low fetter-bush is an evergreen shrub, usually 
much branched, with the branches erect or strongly ascending. 
The branchlets and particularly the twigs are clothed with two 
kinds of hairs, one kind numerous, minute, and crisped, the other 
fewer, long, coarse, and appressed. The blades of the short- 
petioled leaves are thin-leathery, elliptic to ee ee 
mostly one to two and a half inches long, acute or short-acuminate 
at apex, serrulate and bristly-ciliate with a hed a bale ar. 
minating each tooth, and obtuse, rounded, or sibosraaes at the 
se. The surfaces sa finely reticulate, somewhat shining, deep- 
green, and sparingly pubescent above, except the copiously fine- 
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. The pan i 
short leafy branch. The nodding buds are negro five- aes: 
a for the oe year shortly after anthesis. The numerous, 
owded flowers are nodding, each terminating a short curved 
long but more than twice as long as the calyx, much swollen at the 
base, god sig at the throat, with the five lobes somewhat spread- 
ing. ve stamens are included in the corolla, the anthers 
appenda: oad The subglobose Capeites 2 are less than a quarter of 
an inch long, brown. 
Joun K. SMALL. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. Fig. 1.—Flowering branch, Fig. 2.—Portion of 
corolla, X4. Fig. 3—Stamen, side view, X4. Fig. 4.—Stamen, front view, 
x4. Fig. 5.—Fruit. Fig. 6—Dehiscent capsule. 
