
52 ; TREES AND SHRUBS 

Ledum. Lasrapor TEA. Calyx free from the ovary; corolla regular, 
deciduous, petals nearly distinct ; pod opening through the partitions; leaves 
evergreen. 
Ledum latifolium, Azfon. Shrub 2 to 3 feet high, ranging widely in 
North America in the colder parts; leaves broadly linear to oblong, obtuse, 
under surface covered with a rusty wool, somewhat fragrant when crushed; 
stamens § to 7. 
Leiophyllum. SAND MyrTLe. Calyx free from the ovary; pod opening 
through the partitions; petals separate ; stamens 10, exserted; anthers opening 
lengthwise. 
Leiophyllum buxifolium, Z//o/t. JERSEY PINK. A spreading, branch- 
ing, evergreen native shrub, 6 inches to a foot high, with small white flowers 
in clusters on the ends of the branches. Commonrin the adjacent pine barrens 
of New Jersey, whence it is often brought in early spring to the city for sale. 
Leucothoe. Calyx free from the ovary; not becoming fleshy after flower- 
ing; pod globular but flattened on top, 5-lobed; corolla 5-toothed; anthers 
10, opening by a pore at top, near which each cell has sometimes one or two 
erect horn-like bodies. 
* Leucothoe axillaris, Doz, anthers without horn-like projections ; flowers 
in spike-like clusters from the axils of the thick shining leaves of the previous 
season; nearly sessile leaves oblong or oval, the fine teeth bristle-pointed. 
Shrub is 2 to 4 feet high. From the lower parts of Virginia, and may succeed 
here. 
Leucothoe Catesbzi, Gray. (Andromeda Catesbei, Walter.) Anthers 
without horns; flowers as in the preceding species; leaves with petioles, taper- 
pointed. Shrub 2 to 4 feet high; branches spreading or even pendulous. 
«« Flowers exhaling the unpleasant odor of chestnut blossoms.’’ Mountains of 
Virginia and southward. 
* Leucothoe recurva, Buckley. Anthers with 2 horn-like appendages ; 
branches and flower-clusters recurved-spreading ; ‘leaves lanceolate or ovate, 
taper-pointéd.”” Low shrub from the mountains of Virginia and southward. 
Leucothoe racemosa, Gray. (Andromeda racemosa, Linneus.) Branches 
and flower-clusters erect; flowers cylindrical; anthers with 4 horn-like ap- 
pendages ; leaves lanceolate or oblong, sharp-pointed. Near the coast, from 
Massachusetts southward; 4 to 6 feet high. 
Menziesia. Calyx free from the ovary; fruit a pod, opening through the 
partitions; roundish flower 4-toothed, white or greenish white; stamens 8, 
anthers opening by oblique pores at the tips; leaves deciduous. Our single 
species is: 
Menziesia ferruginea, var. globularis, Gray. Leaves thin, oblong, blunt- 
pointed, with a gland-like tip, hairy on upper surface and on margin, lighter- 
colored and hairy on lower surface. Shrub from along the mountains from 
Virginia southward. 


