ANDROM'EDA ARBO'REA. 
SORREL TREE. 
Class. 
DECANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ERICACE.E. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
N. America 
20 feet. 
July, Sept. 
Tree. 
in 1752. 
No. 1108. 
The fable from which Linneus took the name 
Andromeda, has been noticed in the former pages 
of this work. It probably originated with Apollo- 
dorus, the ancient Greek fabulist, who lived a 
century and a half before the Christian era, but has 
subsequently been woven into the works of other 
classic authors, and somewhat enlarged. Androm- 
eda, it will be recollected, was the daughter of 
Cepheus, king of ^Ethiopia, who was exposed by 
her father on a rock, to be devoured by a sea mon- 
ster, but was rescued and married by Perseus. 
Nuttall adopted the name, Lyonia, for this and 
some other Andromedas, in honour of John Lyon, 
a Scotchman ; who resided, for several years, in 
America; and in 1800, and subsequently, brought 
to London large collections of American trees and 
shrubs, some species of which had never previously 
been introduced to this country. 
Both the names of this plant — the established 
one, Andromeda, and the partially-adopted one, 
Lyonia, afford associations of interest. The former 
will remind the scholar of an interesting classic 
fable, and the latter brings to mind a man of en- 
