32 ERICACEAE. Andromeda. 



minutely reticulated coat conformed to the nucleus. — Ic. PI. t. 122; Lindl. Bot. Reg. xxx. 

 t. ot! ; Chapm. JFl. 262. Pieris pkUli/reifolia, DC. Prodr. vii. 599. — Wet pine barrens, W. 

 Plorida, especially Apalachicola. 



§ 4. Pieris. Corolla from ovate-urceolate to cylindraceous, 5-toothecl : calyx 

 of 5 nearly distinct and early open sometimes herbaceous sepals : filaments nar- 

 row, usually pubescent or ciliate, 2-setose or 2-toothed at or below the apex (these 

 teeth or awn-like appendages spreading or recurved, rarely obsolete) : anthers 

 oblong, awnless: dorsal sutures of the 5-angular capsule with more or less of 

 a thickened ridge (sometimes separating in dehiscence) : placentae usually borne 

 about the middle of the columella and of the cells : seeds scobiform or oblong 

 and with a loose thin coat. — Pieris § 1 & § 4, Benth. & Hook. 1. c. — Original 

 Pieris, Don, is Asiatic, with racemes chiefly terminating leafy branches ; and the 

 seeds pendulous. The two American, of subsection Maria {Pieris § Maria, Benth. 

 & Hook.), bear the flowers in axillary umbels or fascicles, the pedicels scarious- 

 bracteate and bracteolate at base ; and the placeutEe as low as the middle of the 

 columella ; the seeds therefore in all directions. All combine into one subgenus 

 in structure of flower, capsule, and bisetose filaments. 



# Leaves thick -coriaceous and evergreen : sepals thicldsh and rigid, purplish : flowers honey- 

 sceuted, in early spring. 



■ A. nitida, Bartr. (Fetter-bush.) Very glabrous, 2 to 6 feet high, and with acutely 

 triangular branches : leaves Myrtle4ike, rigid, bright green, very shining above, puno- 

 ticulate beneath, ovate to lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, entire, the minutely revolute edge 

 bordered by an intramarginal nerve : flower-clusters in the axils of the persistent leaves of 

 the preceding year : corolla ovoid-cylindraceous with contracted orifice (3 or 4 lines long, 

 from white to rose-red) : filaments nearly glabrous, bearing the setiform small appendages 

 close to the summit : style abruptly fusiform-thickened above the middle : capsule ovoid- 

 globose, little exceeding the calyx. — Bartram, Cat. & in Marsh. Arbust. (1785) 8; AValt. 

 Car.' 137 ; Michx. Fl. i. 252. A. lucida, Lam. Diet. i. 157 (1783), not Jacq. A. coriacea, Ait. 

 Kew. ed. 1 (1789), ii. 70 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1045. A. Mariana, Jacq. Ic. Rar. iii. t. 465, 

 not L. A. marginata, Duham. Arh. ed. no v. i. 188, t. 40. A. myrtifolia, Salisb. A.ohorala, 

 Raf., a form with smaller and rhombic-obovate obtuse leaves. Lyonia marrjinuia, Don. 

 Lcucothoe coriacea, DC, exel. syn. A. rhoinboidalis ? L. marginata, Spach. — Low pine barrens, 

 N. Carolina to Florida and Louisiana. (Cuba: A. lacuslris, C. Wright.) 



* * Leaves almost membranaceous, deciduous: flowers (late spring or summer) consequently on 



leafless branches of the previous year, in the manner of Zenubia ; sepals thinner, larger,' and 

 nearly foliaceous, deciduous with the leaves! {L&ucoihoe § Maria, DC.) 



«A. Mariana, L. (Staggek-bush.) Glabrous or slightly pubescent, 2 to 4 feet high: 

 leaves oblong or oval, obtuse or acute at both ends, entire, loosely veiny (1 to 3 inches 

 long) : fascicles of nodding flowers racemose on naked shoots: corolla cylindraceous-cam- 

 panulate with slightly narrowed orifice, white or pale rose-color (almost half inch long) : 

 filaments hairy outside ; their very small setose appendages below the summit, occasionally 

 obsolete or wanting : capsule ovate-pyramidal, truncate at the contracted apex ; the pla- 

 centa; low down. — Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1579; Duham. 1. c. t. 37; Gray, Man. ed. 5, 200. 

 A. pulchella, Salisb. Li/ania Mariana, Don, 1. c. Leucothoe Mariana, DC. 1. c. — Low grounds, 

 Rhode Island to Florida along the low country ; also Arkansas and Tennessee. Foliage 

 said to be poisonous to lambs and calves. 



§ 5. Ly(Sxia. Corolla from globular to urceolate, pubescent or glandular : 

 calyx 5- (rarely 4-) cleft ; the valvate lobes early open, short : filaments flat, 

 pubescent ; these and the short anthers both destitute of appendages or awns : 

 capsule as in the preceding section, i. e. with ribs at the dorsal sutures which are 

 more or less separable in dehiscence : placentte on the apex of the columella 

 and at the top of the cells : seeds all pendulous, narrow, scobiform, having a loose 



