DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 167 



Shrubs, with small, mostly white, um-shaped flowers. 



Andromeda, IH. 

 A prostrate plant, hardly at all shrubby. Leaves rather large, 



often 1^ in. wide, and veiny. Epigsea, IV. 



A trailing plant with sm.all (about ^ in. wide), thick, evergreen 



leaves. Arctostaphylos, V. 



Shrubs. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, on which the gamopetalous 

 corolla and the stamens are borne. Fruit a true berry or resembling 

 one. 



Fruit a berry-like stone-fruit, with 10 nutlets which resemble 



seeds. Gaylussacia, VI. 



Fruit a berry with many smaU seeds. Vaccinium, VII. 



I. RHODODENDROW, L. 



Shrubs, often much branched. Leaves alternate, thin, 

 deciduous. Flowers very showy, in terminal umbels, from 

 scaly buds, which became well developed the previous season. 

 Calyx very small, 5-parted. Corolla bell-shaped, the tube 

 long and slender, the limb spreading and somewhat one-sided. 

 Stamens 5 or 10, declined ; anthers awnless. Style long and 

 slender, declined ; stigma knobbed. Capsule oblong or linear, 

 5,-eelled, many-seeded ; seeds very small, scale-like. 



1. R. nudiflorum, Torr. Wild Honeysuckle, Election Pink. 

 A. branching shrub, 4-6 ft. high ; twigs smooth or with a few coarse 

 hairs. Leaves obovate or oblong, ciliate-serrate, downy, becoming 

 smooth above ; petioles short. Flowers appearing with or before 

 the leaves, pink or white, sometimes yellowish, fragrant, 1-2 in. 

 wide, tube downy but not glandular. Capsule erect, Unear-oblong, 

 §— I in. long. Swamps and banks of streams ; flowers extremely 

 variable in size and color.* 



2. R. viscosum, Torr. Swamp Honeysuckle, Swamp Pink. 

 A shrub, 4-6 ft. high; branches hairy. Leaves obovate, leathery, 

 mucronate at the apex, mostly smooth above, downy on the veins 

 beneath; petioles very short. Flowers appearing later than the 

 leaves, white, fragrant, lJ-2 in. long; tube long, glandular-viscid; 

 capsule erect, ^-| in. long, bristly. In swamps.* 



