ENUMERATION OF THE SPECIES 135 



(1824). — De CandoUe, Prodr. VII. 716 (1839). — Gray, Man. 268 (1848); 



ed. 5, 299 (1872). — M. A. Curtis, Descript. Trees & Shrubs, 98 (Geol. Nat. 



Hist. Surv. N. Car. III. Bot.) (I860). — Willis, Cat. PL N. Jersey, 33 



(1874). — Kellermann, Cat. Ohio PI. 129 (in Rep. Geol. Surv. Ohio, VII. 



pt. 2) (1893), in part. — Britton & Brown, III. Fl. II. 558, fig. 2743 



(1897). — Clute, Fl. Upp. Susquehanna, 69 (1898). — Britton, Man. 698 



(1901). — Gattinger, Fl. Tennessee, 131 (1901).— Porter, Fl. Pennsylv. 238 



(1903).— Small, Fl. S. E. U. S. 883 (1903); in N. Am. Fl. XXIX. 42 



(1914). — Shreve & others, PI. Life Maryland, 466 (1910). — Stone in Ann. 



Rep. N. J. State Mus. 1910, 612, t. 95 (1911). — Millspaugh, Liv. Fl. W. 



Virginia, 323 (in W. Va. Geol. Surv.) (1913). — Schaffner, Cat. Ohio Vase. 



PI. 204 (in Ohio Biol. Surv. I.) (1914), in part. — Taylor, Fl. Vicin. N. Y. 488 



(in Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. V.) (1915). 

 Rhododendron venustum Salisbury, Prodr. 287 (1796), in part. 

 Azalea periclymenoides Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Am. I. 151 (1803). — Pursh, Fl. 



Am. Sept. I. 152 (1814). 

 Azalea periclymena Persoon, Syn. I. 212 (1805). 

 Azalea nudiflora /3. periclymenoides, Heynhold, Nomencl. Bot. Hort. I. 108 



(1840). 

 Anthodendron nudifiorum Reichenbach in Moessler, Handb. Gew&chsk. ed. 2, 



I. 309 (1827). 1 



An upright shrub, usually 1 to 2, rarely to 3 m. tall; young branchlets slightly 

 pubescent and sparingly strigose or nearly glabrous, becoming dull brown or 

 grayish brown; winter-buds brown, glabrous or slightly pubescent, with ovate 

 abruptly acuminate finely ciliate scales; leaves elliptic to oblong or obovate to 

 oblong-obovate, acute or abruptly acuminulate, rarely obtusish, gland-tipped, 

 cuneate at base, 3 to 8 cm. long and 1.5 to 3 cm. wide, finely pubescent on the 

 midrib above, strigillose and sometimes sparingly pubescent on the midrib beneath, 

 finely ciliate on the margins, bright green above and scarcely paler beneath; 

 petioles 2 to 4 mm. long, strigillose and sometimes slightly pubescent. Flowers 



1 Prelinnean Stnontms: Azalea scapo nudo floribus confertis terminatricibus 

 staminibus declinatis, Linnaeus, Hort. Cliff. 69 (1737). — Chamaerhododendros Vir- 

 ginianaPericlymeni flore ampliori minus odorato, Duhamel, Traite Arb.1. 160 (1755) 

 and doubtfully Cistus Virginiana Periclymeni flore ampliori et minus odarato [sic] 

 Plukenet, Mant. 49 (1700). 



Additional Illustrations. Colored Plates: Trew, PI. Sel. Ehret. t. 48 

 (1750). — Schmidt, Oester. Baumz. III. t. 170 (1800), good plate of the typical 

 form. — Bot. Reg. II. t. 120 (1816), as A. nudiflora var. carnea. — Loddiges, Bot. 

 Cab. I. t. 51 (1818), as A. nudiflora var. rubra. — Guimpel, Otto & Hayne, Abb. 

 Fremd. Holzgew. t. 110 (1825), apparently var. glandifera with white flowers. — 

 Emerson, Trees & Shrubs Mass. ed. 2, II. 440 t. (1875), pink flowers. — Jour. 

 N. Y. Bot. Gard. XIV. 79, pi. (1913). — House, Wild Fl. N. Y. II. 200, pi. 154 

 (1920). — Black Figures: Loudon, Arb. Brit. II. 1140, fig. 943 (1838), after Bot. 

 Reg. t. 120. — Andr<§, PI. Terre de Bruyere, 179, fig. 6 (1864). — Gard. XXIX. 550 

 (1886), same as Loudon's. — Mottet, Diet. Prat. Hort. I. 303, f . 359 (1892), after 

 Andre\ — Newhall, Shrubs N. E. Am. fig. 83 (1893). — Miller & Whiting, Wild 

 Flow. N. E. St. 379 (1895).— Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. I. fig. 172, 173 (1900); Stand. 

 Cycl. Hort. V. fig. 3389, 3390 (1916). — Keeler, Our North. Shrubs, 347 (1903). — 

 Stevens, III. Guide Flow. PL, t. 114, fig. 2 (1910). — Rep. N. Jersey St. Mus. 

 1910, t. 15 (1911). — Amer. For. XXII. 655, fig. (1916).— Habit Figures: 

 Gard. Mag. V. 218, fig. (1907). — Country Life Am. XI. 496 (1907). 



