634 EEICACEAB (hEATH FAMILY) 



and bearing a long recurved awn behind. Capsule 4-5-oelled ; placentae many- 

 seeded, pendulous from the summit of the columella. Seeds smooth and wing- 

 less. — Small arctic or alpine evergreen plants, with scale-like or needle-like 

 leaves, and solitary white or rose-colored flowers nodding on slender erect 

 peduncles. (Named for Cassiope, mother of Andromeda.) 



1. C. hypnoides (L.) D. Don. Tufted and procumbent, moss-like, 1-12 cm. 

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

 conical. — Alpine summits, Me., N. H., and N. Y., cliffs of L. Superior, and 

 high north w. June, July. (Eurasia.) 



16. LEUC6tH0E D. Don. Fettbk Bush 



Calyx of 5 nearly distinct sepals, imbricated in the bud. Stamens 10 ; anthers 

 naked, or the cells with 1 or 2 erect awns at the apex, opening by a pore. 

 Capsule depressed, more or less 5-lobed, 5-celled, 5-valved, the sutures not 

 thickened ; the many-seeded placentae borne on the summit of the short colu- 

 mella. Seeds mostly pendulous. — Shrubs with petioled and serrulate leaves, 

 and while scaly-bracted flowers in dense axillary or terminal spiked racemes. 

 (Leiicothoe, daughter of Orchamus, King of Babylonia, referred to by Ovid.) 



* Anthers aionless ; stigma 6-rayed ; racemes sessile, dense, with persistent bracts, 

 in the axils of thick and shining evergreen leaves ; calyx not bracteolate. 



1. L. axillaris (Lam.) D. Don. Leaves lanceolate-oblong or oval, abruptly 

 pointed or acute, somewhat spinulose-serrulate, on very short petioles; sepals 

 broadly ovate. — Low grounds, Va. to Fla. and Ala. Feb.-Apr. 



2. L. Catesbafii (Walt.) Gray. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, ser- 

 rulate with ciliate-spinulose appressed teeth, conspicuously petioled, 7-15 cm. 

 long; sepals ovate-oblong, often acute. — Moist banks of streams, Va. to Ga. 

 along the mts. May. — Shrub 1 m. high, with long spreading or recurved 

 branches. Flowers exhaling the unpleasant scent of Chestnut-blossoms. 



** Anthers awned; stigma simple; flowers very short-pediceled, in long one- 

 sided racemes mostly terminating the branches; bracts deciduous; leaoes 

 membranaceous and deciduous, serrulate ; calyx bibracteolate. 



3. L. reciirva (Buckley) Gray. Branches and racemes recurved-spreading ; 

 leaves lanceolate or ovate, taper-pointed; sepals ovate ; anther-cells i-aicned; 

 pod 5-lobed; seeds flat and cellular-winged. — Dry hills, Alleghenies of Va. to 

 Ala. Apr. — Lower and more straggling than the next. 



4. L. racembsa (L.) Gray. 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. — Moist thickets, Mass. to 

 Fla. and La., near the coast. May, June. — Shrub 1-3 m. high. Corolla 

 cylindrical. 



17. andrOmeda l. 



Calyx of 5 nearly or partly distinct sepals, valvate in the bud, but very 

 soon separate or open. Corolla urceolate. Stamens 10 ; filaments unap- 

 pendaged ; anthers fixed near the middle, each cell bearing 1-2 awns. Capsule 

 subglobose, 5-oelled, 5-valved, the sutures not thickened ; the many-seeded 

 placentae borne on the summit or middle of the columella. — Evergreen shrubs, 

 with umbeled, clustered, or panicled and racenied pirik or white flowers. 

 (Fancifully named by Linnaeus for Andromeda of Greek mythology.) 



* Anthers awned; capsule more or less globose ; leaves thick and evergreen. 



§ 1. EUANDR6MEDA Gray. Corolla globose-urceolate ; each anther-cell 

 bearing a slender ascending awn; seeds oval, with a smooth and .fhining 

 crustaceous coat. 



1. A. Polifblia L. Low shrub, with elongate creeping base ; stem simpla 

 or with ascending branches, 5-30 cm, high ; leaves linear to narroioly oblong, 



