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562 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
loose, flat, and needle-like. Flowers small, with a red calyx 
and white corolla. (Don’s Mill.) A diminutive creeping ever- 
green, shrub. Lapland, Denmark, and Siberia, on the moun- 
tains, where it covers whole tracts of land; and on the 
north-west coast of North America. Height 6 in. Intro, 
1798. Flowers white, tinged with red; June and July: 
Rare in British gardens. 
w 2. C.tetRaco na D.Don. The 4-cornered-branched Cassiope. 
Identification. D.Don in Ed. New Phil. Jour., 17. p. 157. ; Don’s Mill., 3.p. 829. 
Synonyme. Andrémeda tetragdna Lin, Sp. 563. 
Engravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., t. 73. f. 4.; Bot. Mag., t. 3181.; and our P 
Jig. 1043. 1042. °C. Aypnildes. 
Spec. Char., Se. Leaf obtuse, minutely ciliated, its 
margin revolute, in such a manner as to render 
the leaf tumid, and somewhat 2-celled. Leaves 
adpressedly imbricate in 4 rows, and into a 4- 
cornered column, of which the stem or branch is 
the axis and support. (Don’s Mill.) A diminutive 
creeping evergreen shrub. Lapland, Siberia, North 
America, from Canada to the north-west coast. 
R Height 6in. Introduced in 1810. Flowers white, 
1013, C, tetragina, tinged with red ; March and April. Lodd. 
« 3. C. Lycopopiérpes D. Don. The Club-Moss-like Cassiope. 
Identification. D. Don in Ed. Phil. Journ., 17. p. 157.; 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves ovate, adpressed, im- 
bricated in 4 rows. (Don’s Mill.) A diminu- 
tive, evergreen, moss-like, creeping shrub. 
Siberia, and the Island of St. Lawrence. 
f Height 6 in. Introduced ?, Flowers red ; 
1044. C. lycopodidides. June and July. 
wn 4. C. eRicéipes D. Don. The Heath-like Cassiope. 
Identification. D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 157.; Don’s Mill, 3. 
p. 829, 
Synonyme. Andrémeda ericdides Pall Ross. p. 56. 
ngravings. Pall. Ross., 1. ¢., t. 73. f. 3.; and our jig. 1045. 
Spec. Char., $e. Leaves awned, setosely ciliated. Peduncles 
glabrous. (Don’s Mill.) A diminutive creeping, evergreen 
shrub. Dahuria and Kamtschatka. Height 6in. Intro- 
duced ?, Flowers not seen. 
C. fastigiadta D. Don, a native of Nepal, and C. Redéwski 
G. Don, a native of the East of Siberia, are described in our i 
first edition, but they have not yet been introduced. 1045, C. exicdides, 
Genus VI. 
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CASSA'NDRA D.Don. Tue Cassanpra. Lin. Syst. Decandria 
Monogjnia. 
Identification. D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 157.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 830. 
Synonyme. Andrémeda sp. Lin. and others. : 
Derivation. The name of a daughter of Priam and Hecuba. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-leaved, bibracteate at the base; leaflets imbricated ai 
