ANDROMEDA CORIA'CEA. 
LEATHER-LEAVED ANDROMEDA. 
Order. 
MOHOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ERICEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
2 feet. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
in 1765. 
No. 171. 
This genus is indebted to the oriental extrava- 
gances of fable and allegory for its title. In the 
heathen mythology, Andromeda is represented as 
the beautiful daughter of the king of Ethiopia ; 
whom the nymphs envied, and bound to a rock, 
to be destroyed. Coriacea, from the Latin corium, 
leather. 
This species of Andromeda constitutes a very 
interesting ornament amongst the lesser American 
shrubs, and from its flowers being produced at a 
somewhat lately period, is advantageously mixed 
with the Ledums, Kalmias, Azaleas, &c. It retains 
its foliage during winter, and blossoms about mid- 
summer, yielding flowers that are more showy than 
most others of the genus. 
Though it bears the temperature of our variable 
seasons tolerably well, and flowers freely, still the 
dead terminations of its peduncles or flower-stalks, 
which usually occur, clearly indicate that it suffers 
from un unpropitious climate. 
The Andromeda coriacea may be propagated by 
layers, put down at the end of June ; observing that 
the young shoots only will strike root. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 54. 
Class. 
DECANDR1A. 
