ANDROMEDA ARBOREA. 



SORREL-TREE. SOUR-WOOD. 



Decandria monogynia, Linn. Ericae, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Calix 5-parted, minute, inferior. Corolla more or less ovate, or sub-cylindric, smooth ; bor- 

 der 5-cleft, reflected. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved ; valve producing dissepiments from 

 the middle, margin naked. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Branches terete ; leaves oblong, acuminate ; mucronate-serrulate, smooth ; panicles ter- 

 minal, many-spiked; corollas ovoid-cylindrical, pubescent ; anthers linear, unawned. 

 WUld. 



A tree, from twenty to fifty,* or sixty feetf in height. Trunk from 

 six to twelve and fifteen inches in diameter, covered with a thick 

 and furrowed bark. Branches terete ; bark of the annual twigs of a 



• " I have no where seen the Sorrel Tree of ampler dimensions than in the fertile vallies at 

 the foot of the lofty mountains of North Carolina, particularly in those whose waters unite in 

 the northern branch of the river Catabaw, about thirty miles from Morgantown, and three hun- 

 dred miles from Charleston. In these vallies I have measured Sorrel Trees which were fifty 

 feet high, and twelve or fifteen inches in diameter." Mch. North American Sylva. 



t Mich. Fl. Boreali-Am. and Elliot 



vol. I. 28 



