XX. 4. ZENOBIA. 315 
Savage and romantic mountains, which had so often been the 
theatre of his labors.—Nudtall, Genera I, 266. 
It consists of a few North American shrubs, with entire or 
denticulate, membranous or downy leaves, and rose-colored or 
white flowers in lateral or terminal panicles: distinguished 
from the preceding by having the anthers openmg lengthwise, 
and by their five-angled, five-celled capsules, with five valves 
having their margins closed by five other, external, narrow 
valves. 
Tue Panictep Lyon. JZ. paniculata. L. 
A bushy shrub from three to eight feet high, conspicuous in the 
early part of summer for its long and crowded panicles of white 
flowers, and afterwards for its persistent, five-cleft seed-vessels. 
The root is strong and tough. Its stem and irregular branches 
are covered with a light pearly, ash-colored, stringy bark, which 
on the last year’s shoots is reddish, and on the recent shoots hght 
green, and often downy. The leaves are in bunches, or alter- 
nate, on short, appressed stalks, lance-shaped, elliptic or in- 
versely egg-shaped, entire, or minutely serrate, acute or acumi- 
nate at each end, smooth above, lighter and downy beneath. 
Flowers in an irregular, terminal, compound panicle, with 
small leaves at the base of the branches, and linear, brown, 
very fugacious bracts; partial footstalks, thread-like, downy. 
Calyx greenish, of five teeth, scarcely distinguishable by the 
eye from the corolla to which it closely adheres. Corolla white, 
nearly globose, with five minute, reflected teeth almost closing 
the orifice. Anthers with doubly curved filaments, bringing 
the anthers round the base of the pistil, which is nearly as long 
as the corolla. 
Lyonia maridna,—Andromeda mariana of our botanists, an- 
other beautiful plant, is found in Rhode Island, and probably 
will be in Massachusetts. 
XX. 4. THE ZENOBIA. ZHNOBIA. D. Don. 
North American, evergreen shrubs, bearing racemed flowers, 
with a five-lobed calyx and bell-shaped corolla, with ten sta- 
