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§ 1. Parabryanthus. Corolla open-campaaulate, 5-cleft or 5-lobed : calyx 

 glabrous : flowers racemose-clustered : pedicels subtended by foliaceous and ri<nd 



bracts : leaves almost smooth, with strongly revolute thickened margins. Gray, 



Bot. Calif. 1. c. Bryanthus, in part, Hook. & Benth. Gen. 1. c. PhyUodoce, in part,' 

 Maxim. 1. c. 



B. Breweri, Gray. A span to a foot high, rigid : leaves 3 to 7 lines long : pedicels 

 numerous, at first shorter than the flowers : corolla rose-purple, almost saucer-shaped, 

 5-cleft fully to the middle, large for the genus, the spreading lobes 2 lines long : stamens 

 (7 to 10) and style soon much exserted. — Proc. Am. Acad. vii. 377.— Sierra Nevada at 

 about 10,000 feet. Flowers comparatively large and showy. 



B. empetriformis, Gray, 1. c. A span or so high : leaves similar to those of the pre- 

 ceding, or rough at the margin : pedicels fewer and more umbellate : corolla rose-color, 

 much smaller (between 2 and 3 lines long), campanulate, barely 5-lobed; the lobes much 



shorter than the tube: stamens included: style either included or exserted. Menziesia 



empetriformis, Smith in Linn. Trans, x. 280 ; Pursh, Fl. i. 264 ; Graham in Edinb. Phil. Jour. 

 & Bot. Mag. t. 3176 ; Hook. Fl. ii. 40. M. Grahami, Hook. 1. e. PhyUodoce empetriformis, 

 Don, Syst. iii. 783. — Rocky Mountains from Iat. 50° to 42°, and Mount Shasta, California 

 to Vancouver's Island. 



Var. intermedins (Menziesia intermedia, Hook. 1. a), apparently a form with corolla 

 approaching cylindraceous and sepals rather acute. — Northern Rocky Mountains, Drum- 

 mond, Lyall. 



§ 2. Phyllodoce. Corolla ovate, contracted at the orifice, 5-toothed : calyx 

 glandular-pubescent : stamens and style included : pedicels umbellate ; the bract- 

 lets scarious and bracts thinnish : leaves more scabrous-ciliolate or rouo-hish. 



PhyUodoce, Salisb. Parad. Loud. 36; DC. I.e., in part; Benth. & Hook. 1. c. 



# Flowers purple, rarely rose-color, 2 to in the umbel, or sometimes solitary. 

 B. taxifolius, Gray, 1. c. Barely a span high: leaves with acute scabrous-ciliolate 

 edges: pedicels minutely glandular: sepals ovate-lanceolate, acuminate: corolla from 

 urceolate-oblong to ovoid, glabrous, as are the filaments. — Andromeda taxifolia, Pall. Fl. 

 Ross. ii. 54, t. 72; Fl. Dan. t. 57. A. cozruka, L. Fl. Lapp. t. 1, f. 5, but corolla not blue. 

 Menziesia ccervlea, Swartz in Linn. Trans, x. 377, t. 30. PhyUodoce taxifolia, Salisb. 1. c. ; DC. 

 I. c. — Alpine mountain summits of New Hampshire and Maine; also Labrador. (Green- 

 land, N. Eu. to Japan and Kamtschatka.) 



# # Flowers from white or whitish to sulphur-color. 

 B. Aleutians, Gray, 1. c. A span or more high : leaves of the preceding: pedicels (7 to 

 15) and base of the acutish sepals very glandular : corolla altnost globose, glabrous, 

 whitish : filaments glabrous. — Menziesia Aleutica, Spreng. Syst. ii. 202 ; Cham, in Linn, 

 i. 515; Hook. 1. c. ; not Bong. PhyUodoce Pallasiana, Don, & DC. 1. c. (as to pi. Cham., 

 Andromeda cozrulea, var. viridiflora, Pall. herb. ?) ; Maxim. Rhod. As. Or. 6. — Unalaschka 

 and Alaska. (Kamtschatka to Japan.) 

 B. glandulinorus, Gray, 1. c. A span or two high : leaves similar or thicker-edged : 

 pedicels (3 to 8) and acuminate sepals glandular-hirsute : corolla turgid-ovate, glandular, 

 sulphur-color : filaments puberulent. — Menziesia glanduliflora, Hook. Fl. ii. 40, t. 132. M. 

 Aleutica, Bong. Sitk. 154, t. 3 (poor), not of Spreng. — Rocky Mountains, 'lat. 49° to 56°, 

 and west to Sitka. 



15. KALMIA, L. American Laurel. {Peter Kalm, a pupil of Linnaeus, 

 who travelled in Canada and N". States, and became professor at Abo.) — N. 

 American shrubs and one W. Indian ; with evergreen entire leaves, and umbellate 

 clustered or rarely scattered showy flowers, either rose-colored, purple, or white : 

 no scaly leaf-buds nor thin scaly-bracted flower buds ; the bracts ovate to subulate, 

 coriaceous or firm and persistent. Calyx 5-parted or of 5 sepals, imbricated in 

 the bud. Limb of the corolla in the bud strongly 1 0-carinate from the pouches 



