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K. hirsuta, Walt. About a foot high, branching freely : leaves nearly sessile, plane, 

 oblong or lanceolate, a quarter to half inch long : flowers scattered and axillary, produced 

 through the sunimer, on pedicels longer than the leaves : sepals ovate-lanceolate and leaf- 

 like, as long as the rose-purple corolla (this barely half inch in diameter), at length decidu- 

 ous, leaving the old capsules bare. — Bot. Mag. t. 138. A", cHiata, Bartram, Trav. — Low 

 pine barrens, S. E. Virginia to Florida. 



16. MENZIESIA, Smith. (Archibald Menzies, assistant surgeon in Van- 

 couver's voyage, 1791-95, brought the original species from the N. VT. coast.) 



Deciduous-leaved shrubs, of N. Am and Japan ; with the foliage of the Azaleas, 

 but with small and mostly dull-colored 4-merous flowers (the corolla barely lobed, 

 in ours a quarter inch long, lurid-purplish), developed at the same time as the 

 leaves, from separate strobilaceous buds, which terminate the branches of the 

 preceding year ; the pedicels nodding in flower, erect in fruit. Leaves alternate, 

 membranaceous, glandular-mucrouate. Capsule short : placenta: attached to the 

 whole length of the co'umella. Flowers in early summer. — Smith, Ic. PL 59 ; 

 Salisb. Parad. Lond. 44 ; Maxim. Rhod. As. Or. 7. 



* Seeds -with tail or appendage at each end as long as the nucleus: capsule smooth and naked or 

 nearly so, inclined to obovate : filaments more or less eiliate below. 



M. glabella. Strigose-ehaffy scales wanting, or very few on young petioles and midrib 

 beneath : leaves obovate, mostly obtuse, barely mueronate-tipped, glauceseent and glabrous 

 or nearly so beneath (an inch or two long), sprinkled with some small appressed hairs 

 above, the obscurely serrulate margins minutely ciliolate : pedicels naked or somewhat 

 glandular : corolla ovoid-campanulate. — M. r/lobulark, Hook. Fl. ii. 41 ■ Maxim. Rhod. As. 

 Or. 1. e., not Salisb. M. ferrwjinea. Gray in Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 30:!. — Rocky Mountains, 

 lat. 49°-56° {Drummond, Dounjeau), thence to Washington Territory and Oregon, Li/all, 

 Tolmie, E. Hall. 



# # Seeds merely apiculate or very short-tailed : capsule ovate : filaments glabrous. 



M. globularis, Salisb. Straggling or loosely branched shrub 2 to 5 feet high (like the 

 others), more or less chaffy : leaves obovate-oblong, usually obtuse, prominently glandular- 

 mucronate, strigose-hirsute especially above, glauceseent beneath : pedicels glandular : 

 corolla globular-ovate becoming ovate-eampanulate : capsule beset with short gland-tipped 

 bristles. — Pursh, 1. c. M. Smilhii, Michx. Fl. i. 235. il/. ferrurjinea, var. (ijlobuluris), Sims, 

 Bot. Mag. 1. 1571 ; Gray, Man. ed. 2 & 3. M. pilosa, Juss. in Ann. Mus. i. 56. Azuli-n ptlosti, 

 Michx. in Lam. Jour. Xat. Hist. i. 410. — Woods, through the Alleghany Mountains, from 

 Pennsylvania to Georgia. Most like the preceding, but the seeds very different ; the small 

 calyx commonly more distinctly 4-lobed. Leaves an inch or two long. 



M. ferruglnea, Smith. Strigose-chaff not rare on young parts : leaves oblong or lan- 

 ceolate-obovate, acute or acutish at both ends, prominently glainlular-mueronate, more 

 eiliate with glandular bristles, rusty strigose-hirsute above, merely paler beneath (somewhat 

 blackening in drying) : pedicels bristly-glandular : corolla oblong-ovate and becoming 

 eylindraceous. — Pursh, Fl. i. 264; Hook. 1. c. ; Maxim. I.e. — Woods, coast of Oregon 

 to Alaska and- Aleutian Islands. ( Kamtschatka 7 ) 



17. RHODODENDRON, L. Rose Bay, Azalea, &c. (The ancient 

 Greek name, meaning rose-tree.) — Shrubs or small trees, of diverse habit 

 and character, with chiefly alternate entire leaves : the principal divisions have 

 been received as genera, but they all run together. Only five are N. American 

 out of the eight subgenera of Maximowicz. Rhod. As. Or. 13. (Rhododendron & 

 Azalea, L.) — The first two subgenera are very anomalous. 



§ 1. Therorhodion, Maxim. Flowers one or two terminating leafy shoots 

 of -the season ; the thin bud-scales of the shoot deciduous only with the annual 

 leaves : corolla rotate, divided to the base on the lower side : stamens 10. 



