138 OTHER AMERICAN PLANTS. 



Figured in Lodd. Cab. t. 1028 ; Bax. Brit. Bot. 5, 

 t. 383. 



Variety majus is larger in all its parts. 

 Figured in Lodd. Cab. t. 616. 



V. OXYCOCCUS and macrocarpus are our small 

 and large cranberries, both found plentifully growing 

 wild, and the latter sometimes cultivated for market. 

 Though naturally growing in bogs, a wet soil is not 

 essential to them, as they do well in any good loam. 

 The flowers and fruit of both are very pretty. 



V. STAMiNEUJi, the Deerberry, with deciduous 

 foliage, greenish-white flowers, and large, gi'cenish 

 fruit, is sometimes found in cultivation, and is not 

 uncommon in the wild state in dry woods. 



The Leucothoe. 



A genus containing two of our most beautiful 

 flowering shrubs, without which no collection of 

 Aanerican plants can be complete, and which add 

 greatly to the attraction of the shrubbery. They 

 are hardy plants, doing well in Rhododendron soil, 

 and require no special culture. 



They are commonly known as Andromeda. 



Leucothoe ploribtjnda. 



This elegant species is a native of the Southern 

 States, on the mountains, but is generally hardy 

 with us. The foliage is evergreen, rather small, 



