. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 15. HEATH FAMILY. 689 Swamp Eubotrys. Fig. 2. Eubotrys racemosa (L.) Nutt. Andromeda racemosa L. Sp. PI. 394. 1753. E. racemosa Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 260. 1843. Leucothoe racemosa A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 252. 1856. A shrub, 5°-i2° high, with erect or divergent branches, terminal racemes, and glabrous or puberulent twigs. Leaves oblong to
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. Genus 15. HEATH FAMILY. 689 Swamp Eubotrys. Fig. 2. Eubotrys racemosa (L.) Nutt. Andromeda racemosa L. Sp. PI. 394. 1753. E. racemosa Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 260. 1843. Leucothoe racemosa A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 252. 1856. A shrub, 5°-i2° high, with erect or divergent branches, terminal racemes, and glabrous or puberulent twigs. Leaves oblong to ovate, mostly acute at each end, thin, deciduous, short-petioled, glabrous, or with some short hairs above, pubes- cent, at least on the veins beneath, serrulate, i'-3' long, J'-i' wide; racemes solitary or clustered; flowers appearing with or before the leaves; calyx 2-bracteolate at the base, the bractlets firm, per- sistent; sepals much imbricated; pedicels about i" long, jointed with the rachis; corolla nearly cylin- dric, 3"-4" long; anther-sacs 2-awned; style slender ; stigma capitate ; capsule slightly grooved, ij" in diameter, about equalling the sepals or a little longer; seeds smooth, wingless^. In swamps and moist thickets, Massachusetts to Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Florida and Louisiana, mostly near the coast. White ozier or pepper-bush. April-June. Leucothoe elongata Small, of the Southern States, is of this genus, differing from the preceding species in its relatively longer sepals ; it is recorded as far north as Virginia. 16. ANDROMEDA L. Sp. PL 393. 1753. A glabrous branching or rarely simple shrub. Leaves coriaceous, linear or oblong, entire, revolute-margined, evergreen, short-petioled, white-glaucous beneath. Flowers small, white, drooping, in terminal umbels. Calyx deeply S-parted, persistent, the lobes not imbricated. Corolla globose-urceolate, 5-toothed, the teeth recurved'. Stamens 10, included; filaments bearded; anthers attached to
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