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THE AMERICxVN BOTANIST 



one may often find a trailing species, the bearberry (Arc- 

 tostaphyllos iiva-nrsa), its long stems thickly set with substan- 

 tial glossy green leaves forming bright mats of verdure on 

 sandy knolls, bare otherwise. Although it is apparent from 

 the spelling of the generic name that the common name is 

 rightly spelled bcarhQi'iy we have always felt, in view of the 

 region it affects and the dry and tasteless nature of its fruits, 

 that it would be more appropriate to spell the name barch^vry. 



A Southern species of Andromeda. 



As one proceeds southward, the species of Andromeda 

 increase in number while other heathworts, not found in the 

 Northern States, begin to appear. Several of these are moor 

 plants, rather than true heath plants from which it is evident 

 that acid soil rather than any predilection for heath or moor, 

 influences their location. In the North, many of the heathworts 

 also inhabit the moors. The little leatherleaf {Andromeda 

 ealy cilia fa) whose persistent, russet-leather leaves are conspicu- 



