ANDROIVrEDA HYPNOIDES. 
MOSS-LIKE ANDROMEDA. 
Class. 
DECANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ERICACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit 
Introduced 
Lapland. 
4 inches. 
June, July. 
Shrub. 
in 1798. 
No. 759. 
The word Andromeda has been noticed under 
No. 24. Hypnoides has been adopted as a specific 
name from the general resemblance of this diminu- 
tive shrub to a species of hypnum, or moss. This, 
like the plant figured under No. 658, belongs to 
Professor Don’s genus Cassiope. 
Many of the vegetable inhabitants of extremely 
northern or alpine localities become pecularly in- 
teresting, not alone from their rarity, but from 
their beauty, and also their humble growth — an 
adaptation, as it were, to their peculiar habitats. 
Few men, if any, have explored the inhospitable 
regions of the north with the avidity and inex- 
tinguishable love of botany that inspired the im- 
mortal Linneus. He braved the inclement elements 
of the Alps of Lapland, and discovered, almost 
at the extreme limit of vegetation, the very plant 
under consideration, accompanied by a few lichens 
and other dwarf and mostly inconspicuous subjects. 
It is exceedingly interesting to trace such a tra- 
veller, and on reference to his journal we find that 
the very day after he discovered the Andromeda 
hypnoides (July 11, 1732) he writes, 'MVe rose 
