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late, shining, strewed with a few short gland-like 

 hairs. Racemes of flowers compound, alternately 

 sessile on the terminal branches. Flowers white, 

 l-petaled, globular, contracted at the mouth. 

 (Wats.) A desirable species, nearly allied to L. 

 panieulata, which flowers in June and July, but 

 which is less remarkable in point of floral beauty, 

 than for its fine shining foliage. Unfortunately 

 for this, and other species of Lyonia and An- 

 dromeda, they are generally crowded together in 

 masses, so that nothing is seen of any sort, but 

 the points of its shoots struggling with those of 

 others for light and air; whereas, were they 

 planted singly, they would form objects so totally 

 different, and of such superior beauty, as hardly to 

 be recognised for the same species. 



Sfe 9. L. frondo^sa Nutt. The branchy Lyonia. 



Identification. Nutt. Gen. Amer., 1. p. 267. ; Don's Mill., 3. "p, 831. 

 Synonyme. Andromeda frondbsa Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 295. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Densely villose with whitish hairs. Leaves deciduous, 

 oblong or oblong ovate, blunt or acutish, often rusty, prominently veined; 

 the lateral margins revolute, entire, and rough. Flowers white, in a ter- 

 minal leafly panicle. Corollas globose, hispid, or downy. (Doris Mill., iii. 

 p. 831.) A native of the lower counties of Virginia and Carolina. Intro- 

 duced in 1806, and growing to the height of 3 ft.; flowering in May and 

 June. There are plants at Messrs. Loddiges's. 



j* 10. L. multiflo n ra Wats. The many-flowered Lyonia. 



Identification. Wats. Dend. Brit, t 128. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 831. 

 Engravings. Dend. Brit., t. 128. ; and our fig. 906. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves deciduous, narrow, lan- 

 ceolate, serrate, sprinkled with hair-like atoms. 

 Flowers numerous, small, white, disposed in ter- 

 minal panicles, that are composed of numerous 

 grouped racemes. (Doris Mill., in. p. 831.) A 

 native of North America ; perhaps it is only a 

 variety of L. panieulata. In British gardens, it 

 grows to the height of 2 ft., flowering in July. 

 The date of its introduction is uncertain ; pro- 

 bably in 1812, by Lyon. 



• 11. L. capretefo^lia Wats. The Goat-Willow-leaved Lyonia. 



Identification. Wats. Dend. Brit, t 127. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 831. 

 Engravings. Dend. Brit., t. 127. ; and our fig. 907. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves deciduous, coriaceous, 

 elliptic, with a short acuminate termination, 

 serrulate, sprinkled with short fleshy hairs. 

 Flowers white; disposed in racemes and co- 

 rymbs that are mixed, lateral, and leafy. Co- 

 rollas rather silky, globular, coarctate. A 

 native of North America. Perhaps it is only a 

 variety of L. panieulata. (Doris Mill., iii. 

 p. 831.) 



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App. i. "Doubtful Species of Lyonia, not yet introduced. 



I. rhomboidilii (> Hon , Andr6med<x rhombdidalii N. Iiu Ham,, 1. p. 192. ; is a native of Florida 

 roUna, tvith triquetrou* and florlferoiu branche*. described in the Nouveau Du Hamel, from 

 ■ imero, and stated not to he yet cultivated iii Europe. 



