— ‘Azalea Lapponica L. Sp. Pl. 151. 1753.—A low much 
ee tube, 3 larger than the fourth, wavy-™ 
210 BOTANICAL GAZETTE 
121. Lepum paLustris L, Sp. Pl. 391: 1753.—Shrub with — 
leaves linear, revolute, clothed with brown wool on the lower 
surface, marked with quadrangular veining on the upper: flowers 
white, in corymbs terminating the branches. 
Type range: “in Europae septentrionalis paludibus uliginosis.” 
122. LoISLEURIA PROCUMBENS Desv. Journ. Bot. 1 : 35. 1808. 
Azalea procumbens L. Sp. Pl. 151. 1753; Fl. Lapp. pl. 6. fig 2— 
A pretty little prostrate suffrutescent plant, with small crimson 
open-campanulate flowers in umbels terminating the stems. 
Type range: “in Alpibus Europae.” a 
123. RHopopENDRon Kamrcuaticum Pall. Fl. Ross. 1:4 
pl. 33.—One of the most beautiful of arctic plants: i 
obovate-spatulate, veiny, bristly-ciliate: flowers rich crimso® 
with the calyx persistent and the divisions of the corolla almost 
an inch long. oe 
Type locality: ‘‘ Kamtchatka.”’ 
124. RHopopDENDRON Lapponicum Wahl. FI. Suec. 249 
prostrate shrub about 8™ high, with rough brownish 
outer part splitting irregularly into small plates: leaves | 
at the ends of the branches, oblong to elliptical or ev 
3-10 long, about half as wide, with entire revolute ® 
mucronate apex, subcuneate base, midrib sulcate 0? the 
surface and prominent on the lower, surface MB 
the pits c vered with a brown scale, denser on the lower 
_ flowers on peduncles a little longer than the Ogos 
: at the ends of the branches, apparently without bra 
4 very short round divisions about 1™ long and 
purplish, ciliate, lepidote with greenish scales: COP 
‘otate-campanulate, of 4 oblong-orbicular lobes ade 
ae : the throat, glabrous. otherwise: stamens. 7 0 
_ twice geniculate; stigma capitate; ovary "°” 
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