DECANDRIA, MONOGYNIA. 
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6. V. brandies angular, greenish ; leaves sessile, teneiium. 
ovate-lanceolate, mucronate, serrulate, shining 
all over ; fascides crowded with flowers, sub- 
terminal, sessile ^ corollas ovate.— and 
Fursh. 
V. Pennsylvanicum, Lamark and Micb« 
Sugar Huckle-berries. 
A low shrub, with pale-red flowers. Berries black, and very 
sweet; by which circumstance they can be readily recognized 
among the huckle -berries brought to market for sale. Near 
Woodbury, Jersey ; rare. Ij . May. 
195. ANDROMEDA. Gen. pi. 747, {Erlcce.) 
Calix 5-parted, minute^ inferior. Corolla 
more or less ovate^ orsubcylindric, smooth; 
border 5-cleft, reflected. Capsule 5-celled, 
5-valved; valves producing dissepiments 
from the middle, margins naked.— 
1. A. leaves lanceolate-oblong, somewhat obtuse, caUcuiata. 
obsoletely serrulate, subrevolute, scaly-punctate, 
ferruginous beneath ; raceme terminal, leafy, 
leaning one way; pedicels short, solitary, axil- 
lary; calices acute, bibracteate at the base; 
bractes broad-ovate, acuminate ; corollas ob- 
long-cylindric. — Willd. 
Icon. Pallas. FI. ros. £. p. 53. t. 71. f. 1. 
(Pursh.) 
Evergreen or Box-leaved J^ndromeda. 
A shrub, three or four feet high. Flowers white. Leaves to- 
wards the extremities of the branches, becoming gradually 
smaller. In the spongy-swamp, a little south-east of Kaighn’s 
point, Jersey. 1 have not met with it elsewhere. In that loca- 
lity it is abundant. . April, May. 
2. A. leaves oval, subacute at each end, very en- matiapa. 
tire, sraootli, subcoriaceous, paler underneath ; 
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