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9. CASStOPE, Don. Cassiofb. 



Calyx without bractlets, of 4 or £ nearly distinct ovate sepals, imbricated in 

 the bud. Corolla broadly carapanulate, deeply 4 - 5-cleft. Stamens 8 or 10 : 

 anthers fixed by their apex ; the ovoid cells each opening by a large tei-minal 

 pore, and bearing a long recurved awn behind. Pod ovoid or globular, 4-5- 

 ccUed, 4 - 5-valved ; the valves 2-cleft : placentae many-seeded, pendulous from 

 the summit of the columella. Seeds smooth and wingless. — Small, arctic or 

 alpine evergreen plants, resembling Club-Mosses or Heaths. Flowers solitaiy, 

 nodding on slender erect peduncles, white or rose-color. {Cassiope was the 

 mother of Andromeda.) 



1. C. Iiypuoldes, Don. Tufted and procumbent, moss-like (l'-4' 

 high) ; leaves needle-shaped, imbricated; corolla 5-cleft; style short and coni- 

 cal. (Andromeda hypnoides, L.) — Alpine summits of the Adirondack Moun- 

 tains, New York {Dr. Parry), White Mountains, N. Hampshii-e, and Mount 

 Katahdin, Maine {Mr. Young), and high northward. (Eu.) 



lO. ANDRf^MEDA, L. (in part.) (Andromeda, Zenobia, Lyonia, 

 NuU., & Pieris, Don.) 



Calyx without bractlets, of 5 nearly or partly distinct sepals, valvate in the 

 early bud, but very early separate or open. Corolla 5-toothed. Stamens 10 : 

 anthers fixed near the middle, the cells opening by a terminal pore. Pod glob- 

 ular, 5-celled, 5-valved; the many-seeded placentae borne on the summit or 

 middle of the columella. — Shrubs, with umboUed, clustered, or paniclcd and 

 rfllfcemed (mostly white) flowers. (Fancifully named, by LinnEeiis for A. poll- 

 folia, in allusion to the fable of Andromeda.) 



§ 1 . ANDR6MED A PEOPEB. — Corolla globular-um-shaped : JUaments bearded, 

 not appendaged : anthers short, the cells each surmounted by a slender ascending 

 awn ; seeds turned in aU directions, oval, with a close and hard smooth coat : flow- 

 ers in a terminal umbel : pedicels from the axils of ovate persistent scaly bracts : 

 leaves evergreen. 



1. A. polifoliat L. Smooth and glaucous (6'-18' high) ; leaves thick, 

 lanceolate or oblong-linear, with strongly revolute mai-gins, white beneath. — 

 Cold bogs, from Pennsylvania northward. May. (Eu.) 



§ 2. PORTtlNA, Nutt. — Corolla ovoid-um-shaped and 5-angled: filaments not 

 appendaged: anthers oblong, the cells each bearing a long reflexed awn near the in- 

 sertion : seeds mostly pendulous, and unth a loose cellular coat : flowers in axillary 

 and terminal racemes, which are flyrmed in summer, but the blossoms expanding the 

 following spring : pedicds l-sided, bracted and with minute bractlets : leaves thick 

 and evergreen, 



2. A. Iloribtinda, Pursh. Branches bristly when young ; leaves lance- 

 ohlong, acute or pointed (2' long), petioled, serrulate and bristly-ciliate ; racemes 

 den.se, crowded in panicles. — Moist hills, in the Alleghanies from Virginia 

 southward. April. — Avery leafy shrub, 2° -10° high, bearing, abundance of 

 handsome flowers. 



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