ANDROMEDA TETRAGO'NA. 
FOUR-ANGLED ANDROMEDA. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
£RICACE£. 
Native of 
Height 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Lapland. 
6 inches. 
April. 
Shrub. 
in 1810. 
No. 658. 
This genus has been named after Andromeda, 
the fabled daughter of Cepheus and Cassiope, who 
was rescued from the sea monster by Perseus, see 
No. 240. The genus Andromeda, like Rudbeckia, 
has been divided into several genera by Professor 
D. Don, and the plant now under consideration is 
his Cassiope tetragona. 
The mere mention of Andromeda reminds us of 
t 
Linneus’s discovery of this very plant in Lapland 
— that country of rugged features, made up of fright- 
ful rocks and stupendous mountains, cataracts, rivu- 
lets, and little valleys, upon which the sun sheds its 
beams for three months without an hour’s intermis- 
sion, and then, as if exhausted of his effulgence, is 
seen no more for the same length of time, leaving 
the poor Laplander enveloped in snow and a murky 
twilight, relieved alone by his reindeer sledge, and 
the aurora borealis. Linneus,in his Flora Lappon- 
ica, says “Whilst I was walking quickly along, in a 
profuse perspiration, facing the cold wind, at mid- 
night; if I may call it night when the sun was shining 
without setting at all; casting my eager eyes around 
me in all directions,! perceived as it were the shadow 
