. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . PI. 588. Pieris nitida Benth. & Hook. Gen. 1876. A glabrous shrub, 2°-6° high, the branches slender, ascending or erect, leafy, acutely angled, sparingly black-dotted. Leaves short- petioled, coriaceous, evergreen, shining, ob- long, oval, oblong-lanceolate, or obovate. acuminate or acute at the apex, narrowed at the base, somewhat black-dotted beneath, the margins entir
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian . PI. 588. Pieris nitida Benth. & Hook. Gen. 1876. A glabrous shrub, 2°-6° high, the branches slender, ascending or erect, leafy, acutely angled, sparingly black-dotted. Leaves short- petioled, coriaceous, evergreen, shining, ob- long, oval, oblong-lanceolate, or obovate. acuminate or acute at the apex, narrowed at the base, somewhat black-dotted beneath, the margins entire, revolute, bordered by an intra- marginal nerve; flowers in axillary umbels, nodding or spreading; pedicels 2"-4" long; calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, rigid, pur- plish, valvate in the bud, soon spreading; corolla white or red. ovoid-cylindric, narrowed at the throat. 3"-4" long; filaments 2-spurred; style thickened above the middle; capsule globose, about as long as the calyx-segments; seeds club-shaped. In wet woods, southeastern Virginia to Florida and' Louisiana. Erroneously recorded from Cuba. Pipe-stem. April-May.
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