294 ERICACE^. (heath family.) 



§ 1. LEUCOTHOE proper. Anthers awnless; the cells sometimes obscurely 2- 

 pointed: stigma depressed-capitate, 5-rayed : racemes sessile (dense), produced at 

 the time of flowering from scaly buds in the axils of the coriaceous and shining per- 

 sistent leaves of the preceding year, shorter than they : bracts persistent : bractlets 

 at the base of the short pedicds. (Seed-coat hose and cellular, wing-like.) 



1. L. axillaris, Don. Leaves lanceolate-oblong or oval, abruptly pointed or 

 acute, somewhat spinulose-serrulate, on very short petioles ; sepals broadly ovate. 

 (Andromeda axillaris, Lam.) — Banks of streams, Virginia, in the low country, 

 and southward. Feb. - April. — Shrub 2° - 4° high. 



2. L. Cateshcfei. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, taper-pointed, serrulate with ciliate- 

 spinulose appressed teeth, conspicuously petioled (3' -6' long) ; sepals ovate-oblong, 

 often acute. (Andr. Catesbau, Walt. A. axillaris, Michx. A. spmulosa, Pursh. 

 L. spinulosa, Don.) — Moist banks of streams, Virginia along the mountains, 

 and southward. May. — Shrub 2° -4° high, with long spreading or recurved 

 branches. Flowers exhaling the unpleasant scent of Chestnut-blossoms. 



-§ 2. EUBOTRYS, Nutt. Anthers awned: stigma simple: bractlets close to the 

 calyx, and, like the. sepals, of a rigid texture, ovate or lanceolate, pointed: pla- 

 centce not pendulous : flowers very short-pedicel led, in long one-sided racemes, 

 which mostly terminate the branches, formed with them in the summer, but the 

 flower-buds not expanding till the following spring : bracts awl-shaped, deciduous: 

 leaves membranaceous and deciduous, serrulate, the midrib and veins beneath pu- 

 bescent. 



3. L. recurva, Buckley. Branches and racemes recurved-spreading ; leaves 

 lanceolate or ovate, taper-pointed; sepals ovate ; anther-cells 1-aumed ; pod b-lobed ,- 

 seeds flat and cellular-winged. — Dry hills, Alleghanies of Virginia and southward. 

 April. — Lower and more straggling than the next. 



4. L. racemosa. Branches and racemes mostly erect; leaves oblong or oval- 

 lanceolate, acute; sepals ovate-lanceolate ; anther-cells each 2-awned ; pod notlobed; 

 seeds angled and wingless. ( Andromeda racemosa & A. paniculata, L. ) — Moist 

 thickets, Massachusetts to Virginia, near the coast, and southward. May, 

 June. — Shrub 4° - 6° high. Corolla cylindrical. 



8. CASSANDRA, Don. Leather-Leaf. 



Calyx of 5 distinct rigid ovate and acute sepals, imbricated in the bud, and 

 with a pair of similar bractlets. Corolla cylindrical-oblong, 5-toothed. Sta- 

 mens 10: anther-cells tapering into a tubular beak, and opening by a pore at 

 the apex, awnless. Pod depressed, 5-celled, many-seeded ; the pericarp of 2 

 layers, the outer 5-valved, the cartilaginous inner layer at length 10-valved. 

 Seeds flattened, wingless. — Low and much branched shrubs, with nearly ever- 

 green and coriaceous leaves, which are scurfy, especially underneath. Flowers 

 white, in the axils of the upper small leaves, forming small 1 -sided leafy ra- 

 cemes ; the flower-buds formed in the summer and expanding early the next 

 spring. ( Cassandra, a daughter of Priam and Hecuba.) 



1. C. calyeulata, Don. Leaves oblong, obtuse, flat. (Andromeda caly- 

 culata, L. ) — Wet bogs : common northward : rare westward to North Wis- 

 consin. (Eu.) 



