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and undeveloped until late in the ensuing spring, when the flower-buds complete 

 their growth and the blossoms expand: bracts foliaceous-subulate, deciduous at 

 flowering : the short pedicels articulated with the rhachis. — Gray, Man. 1. c. 

 JEubotrys, Xutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n. ser. viii. 269. (Between Euleucothoe 

 and the genus Cassandra. The two Japanese species agree with this subgenus 

 only in foliage.) 



L. racemosa, Gray. Shrub 4 to 10 feet high : branches erect : leaves oblong or oval- 

 lanceolate, acute, serrulate, somewhat pubescent when young and on the midrib beneath : 

 racemes or spikes mostly solitary, erect or ascending : sepals lanceolate-ovate, very acute : 

 anther-cells each 2-awned : capsule coriaceous, not lobed : seeds angled and wingless, the 

 shining smooth coat conformed to the nucleus. — Man. ed. 2. 202, ed. 5, 2!)4. Andromeda 

 racemosa & A. paniculuta (chiefly), L. Spec. 394. ^4. spicata, Wats. Dendr. t. 36. Li/onia 

 racemosa & Leucotkoe spicata, Don, 1. c. Zenobia racemosa, DC. 1. c. Cassandra racemosa, 

 Spach, Hist. Veg. ix. 478. Eubotrys racemosa, Xutt. 1. c— Varies with awns of anthers 

 very short. — Moist thickets (Canada, Pursh, but most doubtful), Massachusetts near the 

 coast to Florida and Louisiana. 



L. recurya, Gray, 1. c. Lower than the foregoing, and with divaricate branches : leaves 

 more acuminate : racemes spreading or recurved : sepals ovate : anther-cells 1-awned : 

 capsule ehartaceous, strongly depressed and 5-lobed : seeds flat, with a broadly winged 

 loose cellular coat. — Andromeda (Zenobia) recurm, Buckley in Am. Jour. Sci. xlv. 172.— 

 Dry hills in the Alleghany Mountains, Virginia to Alabama. 



11. CASSANDRA, Don. Leather-Leaf. (Mythological: Cassandra 

 was the daughter" of Priam and Hecuba.) ■ — A single good species. 



C. calyculata, Don. A low and much branched shrub, a foot or two high, with re- 

 curving branches : leaves coriaceous and persistent, very short-petioled, oblong, obtuse, 

 obsoletely serrulate, dull green and lepidote-scurfy, an inch or so in length : flowers on 

 short recurved pedicels in the axils of the upper leaves, these becoming gradually smaller 

 and bract-like : calyx and bractlets rusty depidote : flowers formed in summer and expand- 

 ing early the next spring : corolla cylindraceous-oblong, 5-lobed, white, 2 or 3 lines long : 

 capsules small. — Andromeda cali/culata, L. ; Pall. Fl. Ross. t. 71 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1280; 

 Lodd. Cab. t. 530 & 862. Chamcedaphne aili/culata, Mcench. Lipmia ralijculata, Reichenb. — 

 Bogs, through the cooler parts of the Northern Atlantic States, and in the Alleghanies to 

 Georgia; N. Illinois to Newfoundland; Kotzebue's Sound. (X. Eu. & N. Asia.) 



Var. angustifolia is a remarkable form, unknown in an indigenous condition : leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, and the somewhat revolute margins undulate or crisped : bractlets acute : 

 sepals more pointed. — Andromeda culi/cnlala, var. anr/ustifoliu. Ait. Kew. ed. 1, ii. 70. A. an- 

 ijustifolia, Pursh, Fl. i. 201. A. crispa, Desf. Cat. ; Guimp., Otto, & Ilayne, Holz. t. 51. — 

 " North America and Siberia," Hort. Kew. " Carolina to Georgia," Pursh ; but that is a 

 random guess. 



12. CASSfOPE, Don. (Cassiope was the mother of Andromeda.) — Arc- 

 tic-alpine fruticulose evergreens, resembling Heaths or Lycopodium ; with small 

 or minute and imbricated or crowded entire and veinless leaves, often opposite or 

 whorled, and solitary flowers nodding on the apex of an erect naked peduncle. 

 Sepals ovate, thickened at base. Corolla white or rose-color. Style thickened at 

 base or conical. Placentae many-seeded, pendulous from the summit of the short 

 columella: seeds with a thin close coat. — DC. Prodr. vii. G10. 



# Leaves loose or spreading, Darrow, flattish: peduncle terminal : corolla deeply cleft: style conical. 

 C. Stelleriana, DC. Diffusely spreading, with the habit of Empetrum: leaves oblong- 

 linear, obtuse, widely spreading, obscurely serrulate (less than 3 lines long) : peduncle very 

 short : corolla 4-5-parted. — Andromeda Stelleriana, Pall. Fl. Ross. 58, t. 74 ; Hook. Fl. ii. 

 37, t. 131. Erica Stelleriana, Wilkl. Menziesia empetri/ormis, Pursh, Fl. i. 265, not Smith. 

 Bri/anthus Stelleri, Don, Syst. iii. 833. — N, W. Coast, Sitka to Behring Straits. 



