
PLANTS GROWING IN MUD. 57 
AMERICAN CRANBERRY. (Plate XX//.) 
Oxycéccus macrocarpus. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Fleath. Pale rose. Scentless. North Carolina, northward. Sune. 
Flowers : terminal ; nodding on long pedicels that are sometimes axillary. 
Calyx : of four short teeth. Corol/a : of four deeply parted petals. Stamens : 
eight to ten; protruding. #st/: one. Fruit: a bright scarlet, acid, four- 
celled berry. Leaves: oblong; entire; evergreen ; the margins turned back. 
Stem : prostrate; trailing. 
So dainty and pretty is the little pink blossom of this plant 
that it invariably gives pleasure to those that find it in the peat 
bogs and marshy lands. Its mission in life, however, is to be 
the forerunner of the bright berry which is too well-known in 
connection with Thanksgiving turkey to need any description. 
The name cranberry is said by some authorities to have been 
chosen for the plant because the berries are the favourite food 
of the cranes, when they return in the spring to the shores of 
Holland. Others think it is owing to the curves of the 
branches, which are like the crooked neck of a crane. 

MARSH ANDROMEDA. WILD ROSEIARY. MARSH 
HOLY ROSE. 
Andromeda poltfolia. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Heath. White, or pink tinged with red. Fragrant. Mostly north. May, June. 
Flowers : growing in umbel-like, drooping clusters. Calyx: of five sepals. 
Corolla: of five petals. Stamens: ten. Pistil: one. Leaves: lanceolate: 
glaucous; whitish beneath; evergreen. A low shrub, rarely taller than 
eighteen inches. 
This beautiful shrub is the namesake of the fair daughter of 
the Ethiopian King, Cepheus. Perhaps the bond of sympathy 
that Linnzus recognised as existing between them, is that they 
both have had to contend with monsters. Like Andromeda of 
spotless purity, who was chained to the rock at sea, our little 
plant finds itself attached to some hillock in the swamp. The 
jumping, splashing frogs and sleek, twirling reptiles are no 
doubt quite as fearful to the gentle floweras the fiery dragon 

