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and thin cellular-reticulated testa : flowers (small and white) racemose or fascicled : 



bracts minute and deciduous. — Lyonia, Nutt. Gen. i. 206 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. 



ii. 587. 



* Lepidote-scurf}', not pubescent: flowers fascicled in the axils of persistent coriaceous leaves. 



A. ferruginea, "Walt. Low shrub, or taller and arborescent : k-ares rigid, cuneate-obo- 

 vate, rhombic-obovate, or cunoate-oblong, entire, with revolute margins (1 or 2 inches long), 

 smooth and shining above, or obscurely k-pidote when young, grayish or ferrugineous- 

 lepidote beneath, much exceeding the flower-clusters: capsule oval-pentagonal, barely 

 2 lines long. — Car. 138; Michx. Fl. i. 252 ; Vent. Malm. t. 80. A. ferruginea & A. rigida, 

 Pursh, Fl. i. 20;5 ; Lodd. Cab. t. 4'M. /.//../hk ferrughitn & L. rigida, Nutt. 1. c. — .Michaux's 

 two forms are pretty weHiTiarked, viz. var. arhorescens, with narrower less reticulated 

 leaves, usually crowded ; and var. /rad'cosa, with sparser leaves conspicuously reticulated, 

 mostly cuneate-obovate or rhomboidal. To this belongs *1. rhomhoidulis, " Veill." in Duham. 

 Arb. ed. nov. i. 192, therefore Lnteollioe rhombotduUs, Don, i.e. — Sandy pine barrens, 

 S. Carolina to Florida. (W. Ind. & Mex. ?) 



# # Somewhat pubescent, but not scurfy ; leaves deciduous : flowers racemose-panicled. 

 " A. ligustrina, Muhl. Shrub 3 to 10 feet high, much branched : pubescence minute : 

 leaves from obovate or broadly ovate to lanceolate-oblong (1 or 2 inches long), thinnish, 

 obscurely serrulate or entire : racemes few-leaved at base, or mainly from separate buds 

 (in summer), crowded in naked or leafy panicles ; pedicels either scattered or fascicled: 

 corolla globose, barely 2 lines long: capsule globular : seeds oblong, obtuse at each end. — 

 Ell. Sk. i. 490; Torr. Fl. 421; Gray, JIan. 1. c. -4. panicitlata, Ait.; Jlichx. Fl. i. 254, 

 partly, not L. (except as to syn. Pluk.). A. rncemosa, Lam., not L. Vaccininm ligustrinum, L. 

 Spec. i. 351. Li/onia paniculala, Xutt. 1. c. L. UgiiSfrina, DC. 1. c. L. paniculata, capre<pfoli<i, 

 saJicifoUa, & multijlora, AVats. Dendr. t. 37, 127, 128, — Wet grpunds, Canada to Florida and 

 Arkansas. 



Var. pubescens. A form cinereous with dense and soft fine pubescence. — A. fron- 



dosa, Pursh, Fl. i. 205 (anthers not awned in specimen of herb. Enslin) ; Ell. I.e. ^4. 

 pnniciihilci , vnT./otiosiflora, ilichx. 1. c.,'in part. Li/unin frondosa, Nutt. 1. c— Virginia ? to 

 Georgia. 



9. OXYDIENDRUM, DC. Sorrel-tree, Sour-wood. (Composed of 

 oiiis', sour, and dt'vSQOV, tree, from the acid foliage. Oxydendron, Benth. & Hook., 

 but DeCandoUe's form follows the analogy of Epidendrum.) — A single species, 

 with Peach-like foliage : fl. summer. 



•■O. arboreum, DC. Tree 15 to 40 feet high : leaves membranaceous and deciduous, 

 oblong or lanceolate (4 to inches long), acuminate, serrulate, glabrous, or at first glaucous, 

 veiny, slender-petioled : inflorescence a panicle of many-flowered racemes terminating the 

 leafy shoots of the season, appearing in early summer : flowers tardily opening : corolla 

 from cylindraceous- to ovata-conical (3 lines long), white, minutely pubescent. — Prodr. 

 vii. 601. Andromeda arhm-ea, L. (Catesb. Car. t. 71); Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 005 ; Michx. 

 f. Sylv. iii. t 7 ; Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. 1, t. 30. Lijonia arhorea, Don, 1. c. — Rich woods, 

 Penn., Ohio, and along the Alleghany region to Florida. 



10. LEUCOTHOE, Don. (Mythological ; the name of one of the fifty 

 daughters of Nereus.) Xorth and South American and .Japanese shruhs, of 

 various habit ; with entire or serrulate leaves, and racemose chiefly wliite flowers. 

 — Don in Edinb. .Jour. xvii. 159; Gray, Man. 1. c. Lencothoe & Ac/nristri (at 

 least mainly), Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 584, 586. {Agarista of Don is evidently 

 founded on the Mauritius and Bourbon species, the section Agauria, DC., genus 

 Agauria, Benth. & Hook., to which are added S. American species, all or chiefly 

 belonging to Leucothoe.) 



§ 1. EuLEUCOTHOE. Calyx not bracteolate. 5-parted; the divisions usually 

 only early or slightly overlapping, herbaceous or membranaceous : anthers awn- 



