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pubescent pedicels, in terminal compound corymbs; corolla cup-shaped, 

 about ^ inch across, usually pink with purple markings within, viscid out- 

 side: capsule subglobose, scarcely }/^ inch across. Flowers in May and June. 

 New Brunswick to Florida, west to Ohio and Tennessee. — Introduced to 

 Europe in 1734. Hardy as far north as New England and southern Ontario. 

 One of the most beautiful evergreen flowering slirubs. 



Several varieties are in cultivation: Var. alba, Bosse, with white flowers; 

 var. rubra, Sweet, with deep pink flowers; var. myrtifolia, Bosse, with small 

 leaves 1-2 inches long; var. obtusata, Rehd., with oval to elliptic-oblong 

 leaves obtuse or nearly so at the ends and 2-3 inches long; the two last 

 named are of slow growth and form low dense bushes. 



LEUCOTHOE, D. Don. (Including Agarista) 



Evergreen or deciduous shrubs; winter-buds small, with several outer 

 scales; the flower-buds naked: leaves alternate, short-petioled, serrulate, 

 exstipulate: flowers in axillary or terminal racemes; calyx o-parted, imbricate; 

 corolla ovoid or cylindric; stamens 10; anthers obtuse, or 2-awned or 4- 

 awned at apex, opening by a pore; ovary depressed, 5-celled, style slender: 

 capsule depressed-globose, 5-lobed, the sutures not thickened, separating 

 into 5 valves; seeds minute, irregular. (Leucothoe, daughter of Orchamos, 

 a mythical king of Babylonia.) — About 35 species in North and South 

 America, Japan, Himalayas, and Madagascar. 



L. axillaris, D. Don {Andromeda axillaris. Lam.). Shrub to 5 feet tall, 

 with spreading and usually recurving branches puberulous when young: 

 leaves elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, 2-4 mches long, abruptly short-acuminate 

 or acute, broadly cuneate at base, rarely rounded, minutely spinulose- 

 serrulate, often entire or nearly so toward the base, lustrous above, pale and 

 sparingly pubescent beneath when young; petiole }/q-}4 inch long, pubescent: 

 flowers in dense axillary racemes ^4-2 inches long; pedicels very short; sepals 

 broadly ovate; corolla narrowly urn-shaped, about 14 inch long, white, 

 greenish in bud. Flowers in April and May. Virginia to Florida and Ala- 

 bama. — Introduced in 1765 to Great Britain. Tenderer than the following 

 species, less handsome and not often seen in cultivation. 



L. Catesbaei, Gray {Andromeda axillaris, MicLx. A. Catesboei, Walt.). 

 Shrub to 6 feet tall, with slender spreading and arching branches reddish 

 when young and puberulous: leaves ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 3-7 inches 

 long, long-acuminate, rounded or broadly cuneate at base, ciliate-serrulate, 

 lustrous dark green above, light green beneath, glabrous; petiole ]/i-}/2 inch 

 long: flowers in axillary racemes 1-2 inches long, occasionally branched and 

 up to 3 inches long; pedicels short; sepals oblong-ovate; corolla narrowly 

 m-n-shaped, ]/2 inch long, white, usually reddish in bud: capsule depressed- 



