ANDROM'EDA SPECIO'SA. 
SHOWY ANDROMEDA. 
Class. 
DECANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ERICACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers 
Habit 
Introduced 
Carolina. 
3 feet. 
June to Sep. 
Shrub. 
in 1800. 
No. 930. 
The fabled Andromeda — bound to a rock to be 
destroyed, will be well remembered by most of our 
readers. To Linneus s poetical ideas, on adopting 
the name for this genus, we alluded under No. 240. 
It may not, however, be amiss, as a specimen of 
the vivid fancy of this great naturalist, to give Sir 
J. E. Smith’s translation of Linneus’s explanation, 
as found in his Lachesis Lapponica. ” He says, 
^^Andromeda polifolia (this is the species on which 
the genus was founded) was in its highest beauty, 
decorating the marshy grounds in a most agree- 
able manner. The flowers are quite blood-red 
before they expand ; but, when full-grown, the 
corolla is of a flesh-colour. Scarcely any painter’s 
art can so happily imitate the beauty of a fine 
female complexion ; still less could any artificial 
colour upon the face itself bear a comparison with 
this lovely blossom. As I contemplated it, I could 
not help thinking of Andromeda, as described by 
the poets; and the more I meditated upon their 
descriptions, the more applicable they seemed to 
the little plant before me ; so that, if these writers 
had it in view, they could scarcely have contrived a 
