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282 THE HEATH FAMILY. [ Arctostaphylos. 
In Britain, confined to Scotland, northern England, and Ireland. 
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2. 4. alpina, Spreng. (fig. 630). Black Bearberry.—A low, creeping 
shrub, with shorter and more herbaceous branches than those of the last 
species ; the leaves rather narrower, and very different in consistence, being 
thin, strongly veined, toothed at the top, and withering away at the end 
of the season. Young shoots surrounded by the scales of the leaf-buds, 
which remain long persistent. Flowers small, usually 2 or 3 together, on 
short, drooping pedicels. 
A high alpine or Arctic plant, common in the mountains of northern 
Europe, Asia, and America, and at high altitudes in the more central 
chains of the two former continents. In Britain, only in the central 
and northern high mountains of Scotland, extending to Shetland. 7. 
Spring. 
IV. ANDROMEDA. ANDROMEDA. 
Small shrubs or herb-like undershrubs, chiefly growing in peat-bogs, 
with the flowers of an Arbutus, but a dry capsular fruit opening in as many 
entire valves as it has cells, by slits placed in the middle of the cells, not 
by the splitting of the partitions as in Menziesia, each cell containing 
several seeds. 
A small genus, limited by some modern botanists to the single British 
species, but usually extended so as to comprise several other North Ame- 
rican, as well as Asiatic and Kuropean species. 
1. 4. polifolia, Linn. (fig. 631). Marsh Andromeda.—A low, 
branching, herb-like shrub, seldom above 6 inches high, and quite 
glabrous. Leaves alternate, § to 1 inch long, oblong-lanceolate, evergreen, 
with their edges rolled back, and very glaucous underneath. Flowers 
on rather long pedicels, in short, terminal racemes or clusters; the calyx 
small, deeply 5-lobed; the corolla pale pink, ovoid, enclosing the 10 
stamens. 
In peat-bogs in northern Europe, Asia, and America, to the Arctic 
regions, and in the great mountain-chains of central Europe. In Britain 
confined to central and northern England, southern and central Scotland — 
and Ireland, but absent from the Scotch Highlands, where the plants of 
similar Continental distribution are usually found. 7. all summer. 
V. LOISELEURIA. LOISELEURIA. 
A. low, trailing shrub, with small opposite leaves. Sepals 5. Corolla 
campanulate, 5-lobed. Capsule free, with 2 or 3 cells, opening in as many 
valves by the splitting of the partitions, and containing several seeds. 
The single species of which this genus consists was included by Linnzus 
among his dzaleas, and some botanists retain that name for it, proposing 
to give that of Anthodendron to the showy shrubs so well known as Azaleas 
in our American gardens, but such a change would entail great useless con- 
fusion in synonymy, and the name of ZLoiseleuria is now generally adopted, 
at least by Continental botanists. [Moreover the name Azalea was 
applied by Linnzeus primarily to the Indian plant of that name, and has 
been retained by almost all succeeding botanists for it and its allies, which 
