568 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
nicles, that are composed of numerous grouped 
racemes. (Don's Mill.) An upright deciduous 
shrub. North America. Height 2 ft. Introduced 
in 1812. Flowers white; July. 
a 11. L. (p.) caprearo'Lia Wats, The Goat- 
Willow-leaved Lyonia. 
Identification. Wats. Dend. 
Brit., t. 127.; Don’s Mill., 
3. p. 831. 
Engravings. Ded. Brit., t. 
127. ; and our fig. 1064. 
Spec. Char., jc. Leaves 
1063. L. (p-) multiflora. deciduous, coriace- 
ous, elliptic, with a 
short acuminate termination, serrulate, and 
sprinkled with short fleshy hairs. Flowers dis- 
posed in racemes and corymbs that are mixed, 
lateral, and leafy. Corollas rather silky, globu- 
lar, coarctate. (Don’s Mill.) An erect decidu- 
ous shrub. North America. Height 2 ft. to 
3 ft. Introduced in 1812, Flowers white; July. 1064. L. (p.) eapresefdlia. 
Genus IX. | 
Jt 
LEUCO’THOE D., Don. Tue Leucornée, Lin. Syst. Decandria 
Monogynia. 
Identification. D.Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 159. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 831. 
Synonyme. Andrémeda sp. of previous authors. e 
vrivation. Leucothée was a beautiful nymph, beloved by Apollo ; who was buried alive by her 
father when he discovered her amour, and changed into the tree that hears the frankincense by 
her lover. (Ovid. Met., iv. 196.) Leucothée was also aname given to Ino after she was changed 
into a sea deity. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-leaved ; leaves imbricated at the base. Corolla tubular, 
5-toothed. Stamens enclosed ; filaments dilated, flattened, downy ; cells of 
anthers short, truncate, mutic. Stigma simple, capitate. Capsule with a 
loculicidal dehiscence. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; coriaceous, dentately spi- 
nulose. Flowers white, racemose, axillary, or terminal.—Shrubs, evergreen, 
low ; natives of North America. 
w 1. L. axttna‘ris D, Don. The axillary-racemed Leucothde. 
Identification. D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 159. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 832. 
Synonymes. Andrémeda axillaris Solander in Hort. Kew. 2. p. 89.3; A. Catesbe¢ Walt. Car. fasc. 
No. 2., on the authority of Mr. Gordon. 
Engraving. Our fig. 1065. 
Spee Char., &c. Leaves oblong or oval, acumi- 
nate; in the outward part of its length carti- 
laginous in the margin, and serrulate with 
mucronate teeth ; upper surface glabrous, under 
surface covered with glandular hairs. Young 
branches clothed with powdery down. Flowers 
white, in short, spicate, sessile, axillary racemes, 
attended by scaly bracteas. Corolla ovate cylin- 
drical. Filaments ciliated, very short, Capsule de- 
pressed, globose. (Don’s Mill.) A low evergreen 
shrub. Virginia to Georgia, on mountains. Height 
2ft. to 3 ft. Introduced in 1765. Flowers 
white; May and June. 1065. L. axillans. 
