252 ERicACE^. (heath eamilt.) 



§ 1 . LEUCOTHOE proper. — Anthers awnless ; the cells sometimes obscurely 2- 

 painted: stigma depressed-capitate, 5-rat/ed: racemes sessile {dense), produced at 

 the time of flowering from scaly buds in the axils of the coriaceous and shining per- 

 sistent leaves of the preceding year, slimier than they : bracts persistent : bractlets 

 at the base of the short pedicels. {Seed-coat hose and cellidar, loing-like.) 



1. !>. axillaris, Don. Leaves lanceolate-oblong or oval, abruptly pointed or 

 acute, somewhat spinulose-serrulate, on very short petioles; sepals broadly ovate. 

 (Andromeda axillaris. Lam.) — Banks of streams, Virginia, in the low coun- 

 try, and southward. Feb. -April. — Shrub 2° - 4° high. 



2. Xj, Catesbsl^i* Leaves ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, serrulate with cili- 

 ate-spinulose appressed teeth, conspicuously petioled (3' -6' long); sepals ovate- 

 oblong, often acute. (Andr. Catesbsei, Walt. A. axillaris, Michx. A. spinu- 

 losa, Pursh. L. spinulosa, Don. ) — Moist banks of streams, Virginia along the 

 mountains, and southward. May. — Shrub 2° -4° high, with long spreading 

 or recurved branches. 



I) 2. EtlBOTRYS, Nutt. — Anthers aumed: stigma simple: bractlets close to the 

 calyx, and, like the sepals, of a rigid texture, ovate or lanceolate^ pointed: placentas 

 merely spreading : flowers very short-pedicelled, in long one-sided racemes, which 

 mostly terminate the branches, formed ivith them in the summer, but the flower-buds 

 not completing their growth and expanding till the following spring : bracts awl- 

 shaped, deciduous : leaves membranaceous and deciduous, serrulate, the midrib and 

 veins beneath pubescent. 



3. 1j« recurva. Branches and racemes recurved-spreading ; leaves lanceo- 

 late or ovate, taper-pointed; sepals ovate; anther-cdls 1-awned; pod 5-lobed; seeds 

 flat and cellular-winged. (Andr. recurva, BucJcla/.) — Dry hills, Alleghanies of 

 Virginia and southward. April. ■ -Lower and more straggling than the next. 



4. li. racemosaa Branches and racemes mostly erect; leaves oblong or 

 oval-lanceolate, acute ; sepals ovate-lanceolate ; anther-cells each 2-awned ; pod not 

 lobed ; seeds angled and wingless. (Andr. racemosa & A. paniculata, L.) — Moist 

 thickets, Massachusetts to Virginia near the coast, and southward. May, Juue. 

 — Shrub 4° - 6° high. Corolla cylindrical. 



8. CASSANDRA, Don. Leather-Leap. 



Calyx of 5 distinct rigid ovate and acute sepals, imbricated in the bud, and 

 with a pair of similar bractlets. Corolla cylindrical-oblong, 5-toothed. Sta- 

 mens 10 : anther-cells tapering into a tubular beak, and opening by a pore at the 

 apex, awnless. Pod depressed, 5-celled, many-seeded ; the pericarp of 2 layers, 

 the outer 5-valved, and later the cartilaginous inner layer 10-valved. Seeds 

 flattened, wingless. — Low and much-branched shrubs, with nearly evergreen 

 and coriaceous leaves, which are scurfy, especially underneath. Elowers white, 

 in the axils of the upper small leaves, forming small 1-sided leafy racemes ; the 

 flower-buds formed in the summer and expanding early the next spring. ( Cas- 

 sandra, a daughter of Priam and Hecuba. ) 



1. C. calyctllata, Don. Leaves oblong, obtuse, flat. (Andromeda 

 ealyculata, L.) — Bogs, common northward. (Eu.) 



