520 DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Andromeda. 
from the base: Seeds enveloped in a reticulated mem¬ 
brane. E.) 
(L. palus'tre. 
Hook. FI. Loud. 212 — FI. Dan. 1031. 
A small branching shrub , sub-decumbent and glabrous, the younger 
branches alone ferrugineo-tomentose. Leaves principally in the younger 
branches, scattered, horizontal or reflexed, linear, revolute at the 
margin, above channelled, glabrous, beneath densely ferrugineo-tomen¬ 
tose ; the younger ones erect, very downy. Flowers terminal, corym¬ 
bose, numerous, bracteated at the base, with the bracteae conspicuous, 
broadly ovate, membranous, brown, at first pubescent, soon clothed 
with reddish tomentum, at length sub-glabrous. Pedicels long, 
erect, the exterior ones sub-patent, pubescent, simple. Calyx small, 
persistent, quinquefid, having the segments ovate, patent, externally 
tomentose. Petals rather concave, nerved, white. Stamens ten; fila¬ 
ments long, decumbent at the base, afterwards erect* pale purple; 
anthers oblong, roundish at the base, bluntly emarginate at the apex, 
and there opening with a pore on each side. Germen ovate; style 
filiform, glabrous; stigma small. Capsule oval, pendent. Seeds very 
minute, oblong, covered with a pellucid membrane or arillus. 
Marsh Ledum. Detected by Sir Charles Giesecke, Prof, of Mineralogy in 
the University of Dublin, on the north-west coast of Ireland, where it 
seems to be a denizen along with Papaver nudicaule ; for in the imme¬ 
diate neighbourhood of the station for that plant, namely Achilhead, 
Prof. Giesecke took the specimen from the hat of a fisherman. In the 
more northern regions, too, of Europe and America, these two plants are 
almost always found together. Hook. FI. Lond. E.)* 
ANDROMEDA.f Calyx with five divisions : Bloss. more or 
less egg-shaped; mouth five-cleft: Caps, five-celled: 
Seeds few. 
A. polifo'lia. Umbel of few flowers, terminal: blossom nearly globu¬ 
lar, pendulous: leaves alternate, strap-spear-shaped, revolute, 
(glaucous beneath. E.) 
* (The leaves are used as a substitute for tea by the Canadians in their hunting ex¬ 
cursions ; and by the Norwegians it is called Finne-the , or tea of the Laplanders. It is 
sometimes substituted for hops; or placed among corn to drive away mice, and to destroy 
vermin on sheep and oxen. E.) 
f (From the constellation so called; these plants prevailing in northern latitudes: 
or rather, perhaps, from a fanciful allusion to the fate of the princess of that name, whose 
beauty was doomed to pine on a desolate rock, surrounded by the monsters of the ocean ; as 
her vegetable prototype, hangs her drooping head, suffused with blushes, while possessing 
in solitude the turfy hillock, in the midst of swamps, and loathsome reptiles. We cannot 
refrain from inserting the ingenious application of the fable in the words of Linnaeus himself, 
as given in FI. Lapp.:—“ Virgo haec lectissima pulcherrimaque collo superbit alto et vivL 
dissimo, (pedunculus) , cujus facies roseis labellis, ( corolla ,) vel optimum veneris fucum 
longe superat; juncea haec in genera projecta pedibus alligata, ( caulis inferior incumbens), 
aqua ( vernali ) cincta, rupi ( monticulo ) adfixa, liorridis draconibus ( amphibiis ) exposita, 
terram versus inclinat maestam faciem, ( Jlorem ), innocentissimaque brachia, ( ramos ), 
caelum versus erigit, meliori sede fatoque dignissima, donee gratissimus Perseus, (cestas), 
monstris devectis, earn ex aqua eduxit e virgine factam faecundam matrem, quae turn faciem, 
( fructum ), erectam extollit. Si Qvidio fabulam de Andromeda conscribenti haec ante 
oculos posita fuisset planta, vix melius quadrarent attributa, qui more poetico ex humili 
tumulo produxisset Olympum.” E.) 
