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is clothed with a grayish bark, with a few short leafy branches 
near the top, and with umbels of drooping, snow-white or flesh- 
colored flowers at or near the end. ‘The branches are slender, 
and covered with a pearly, sometimes reddish bark. The leaves 
are on short petioles, narrow. lanceolate, much revolute at the 
edges, pointed, glossy green above, of a pure glaucous or whit- 
ish color beneath. ‘The short, pearl-white fower-stems spring 
from the bosom of ovate, concave, pointed bracts of the same 
color. ‘The short, acute, persistent segments of the calyx are 
white, tipped with red. The corolla is five-angled, nearly glob- 
ular, almost closing at the mouth, with the obtuse segments 
revolute. <A faint, rosy tinge is often spread over the whole 
flower. The stamens are very short, with brown anthers, 
which open in two terminal pores, and are tipped with short, 
awl-like bristles. The round ovary terminates in a club-shaped 
stigma. Flowers:n June. It is found on the edge of Richards’ 
Pond, in Brookli.e; on tussocks in a bog in Richmond, and 
elsewhere. This plant, like others of its kind, may be prop- 
agated by dividing the root or by layers. 
Several other species, which had been included in the genus 
Andromeda, have been elevated by Don into new genera; 
A. calyculdia to Cassandra; A. peniculdta to Lyonia: and 
A. racemosa to Zenodobia. Their great difference in habit and 
appearance seems to authorize a change made on botanical 
grounds. 
XX. 2 THE CASSANDRA. CASSANDRA. Don. 
A genus of two species of low shrubs, covered with a fine pu- 
bescence, which makes them look as if sprinkled with dust. 
The leaves are leathery and persistent; flowers white. The 
calyx is five-leaved, with two bracts at base; the corolla oblong, 
enclosing ten stamens, with anthers which terminate in tubes. 
Both species are cultivated m Europe for their beauty. 
Tue Dwarr Cassanpra. C. calyculdta. D. Don. 
A low, leafy. evergreen shrub, from two to five feet high. 
The bark on the principal stem and larger branches is very 
