198 DECANDHIA, MONOGYNIA. 
flower-bearing branches nearly without leaves, 
peduncles fasciculate, corollas ovatc-cyliudric, 
calices leafy, anthers miiticate, capsule conical. 
—mild. 
Icon. Pluk. Mant. t. 448. (Pursh.) 
OvaUleaved AndromedAi. 
A very elegant shrub, bearing a profusion of pure white 
eylindric flowers. Possesses medicinal virtues. In Jersey, in 
underwood, and on the borders of woods and dry swamps; 
and in similar places on the west of the Delaware ; common. 
\ . May to August. 
racemosa. 3. A. leaves lanceolate, acute, serrulate, glabrous 
on the upper, pubescent on the under surface ; 
racemes terminal, leaning one way, simple or 
branched ; corolla oblong-ovate ^ anthers 4- 
awned. — Mich. 
A. racemosa, L. 
A. panic ulata, Walt. 
A. Catesbsei, Sp. PI. ? 
Sweetrscented Andromeda. Red-hud. 
A very elegant shrub, from three to five feet high, with its 
fine, lateral raceme of white flowers beautifully disposed. On 
the borders of damp woods, particularly on the road to Wood- 
bury, Jersey; frequent, • June, July. 
pamcuiata. 4. A. pubescent j leaves obovate-lanceolate, acute, 
nearly entire ; flower-bearingbranches terminal, 
paniculate, somewhat naked; glomeruli sub- 
pedunculate, corollas subglobose, pubescent, an- 
thers obtuse muticate. — Willd. and Pursh. 
A. patiiculata, Mich., not L. 
A. globulifera, Hortul. 
A. racemosa, Lamark. 
A very common and ordinary looking shrub, from three to 
five feet high. Flowers numerous, very small, white, globu- 
lar. The globular pericarp is persistent, and often rei^aining 
on the plant during the second season. In swampy and low 
