370 THE CULTIVATED EVERGREENS 



globose, about 3^ inch across. Flowers in May. Virginia to Georgia, along 

 the mountains. — Introduced in 1793 to Great Britain. Hardy as far north as 

 Massachusetts in sheltered positions. Much planted as a border shrub for 

 groups of taller evergreens; very handsome and effective with its large lus- 

 trous leaves. 



Var. Rollissonii, Bean (Andromeda Rollisonii, Hort.). Leaves smaller 

 and narrower, 2-4 inches long and 3^-^ inch wide. 



PIERIS, D. Don. (Plate XLVII). 



Evergreen or deciduous shrubs, rarely small trees; winter-buds small 

 with several outer scales; the inflorescence not inclosed in a bud: leaves 

 alternate, short-petioled, entire or serrulate, exstipulate: flowers in often 

 panicled racemes, or in axillary clusters on branches of the previous season; 

 sepals valvate or distinct; corolla globose or urceolate, with 5 short lobes; 

 stamens 10; anthers obtuse with a pair of awns near the base or the filaments 

 2-toothed below the apex; ovary 5-celled; style slender: fruit a capsule 

 separating into 5 dehiscent valves; seeds minute, linear-oblong, not winged. 

 (Pieris, daughter of Pieros, a mythological king.) — About 10 species in North 

 America and in eastern Asia south to the Himalayas. 



P. floribunda, Benth. & Hook. {Androvieda florihunda, Pursh. Portuna 

 floribunda, Nutt.). Dense much-branched shrub, 2-6 feet tall; branchlets 

 and petioles with strigose brown hairs: leaves ovate-oblong to oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, 13^-2 3^ inches long, acute or acuminate, minutely serrulate and 

 ciliate, otherwise glabrous, glandular-dotted beneath: flowers white, nodding, 

 on short pedicels in terminal dense upright panicles 13^-4 inches long; corolla 

 urceolate-ovoid, strongly 5-angled, }4 inch long. Flowers April and May. 

 Virginia to Georgia in the Alleghanies. — Introduced in 1800 to Great Britain. 

 Perfectly hardy near Boston. 



P. japonica, D. Don (Andromeda japonica, Thunb.). Slirub with spreading 

 branches, or sometimes small tree to 30 feet tall; branchlets glabrous: leaves 

 crowded at the ends of the branchlets, obovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate, 

 13^-23^ inches long, acuminate, cuneate at base, crenulate-serrulate, glabrous, 

 dark green and lustrous above, light green beneath : flowers white, in spreading 

 and drooping terminal panicles, 2}/2~5 inches long; corolla urceolate-ovoid, 

 not angled, 3<^ inch long. Flowers in April and May. Japan. — Introduced 

 to Europe some time before 1870. Hardy only in sheltered positions near 

 Boston, and in severe winters the flower-buds sometimes suffer. Very hand- 

 some and graceful when in bloom. 



