. 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 . I. Menziesia pilosa (Michx.) Pers. Alleghany Menziesia. Minnie-bush. Fig. 3224. Azalea pilosa Michx. in Lam. Journ. Nat. Hist, i: 410. 1792. Mcn:siesia pilosa Pers. Syn. i : 420. 1805. Menziesia globularis Salisb. Farad. Lond. 44. 1806. A shrub, 3°-6° high, the twigs more or less chaffy and with stiff hairs. Leaves oval, oblong or obovate, thin, obtuse or acutish and glandul
. 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 . I. Menziesia pilosa (Michx.) Pers. Alleghany Menziesia. Minnie-bush. Fig. 3224. Azalea pilosa Michx. in Lam. Journ. Nat. Hist, i: 410. 1792. Mcn:siesia pilosa Pers. Syn. i : 420. 1805. Menziesia globularis Salisb. Farad. Lond. 44. 1806. A shrub, 3°-6° high, the twigs more or less chaffy and with stiff hairs. Leaves oval, oblong or obovate, thin, obtuse or acutish and glandular-mucronulate at the apex, narrowed at the base, rough-hairy above, pale glaucescent and sometimes chaffy on the veins beneath, 1-2' long, the margins ciliate; petioles 2"-$" long, pubescent; flowers few in the umbels, drooping; pedicels filiform, glandular, 4'-i' long; calyx-lobes short and broad, hirsute-ciliate; corolla urn-shaped or globose- ovoid, 2"-3" long; filaments glabrous; capsule ovoid, about 2" high, erect, glandular-bristly; seeds pointed at each end. In mountain woods, Pennsylvania to Georgia^ May-June. 2. Menziesia glabella A. Gray. Sinooth ^Menziesia. Fig. 3225. Menziesia glabella A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. \. 2 : Fart i, 39. 1878. Similar to the preceding species, the twigs less chaffy. Leaves obovate, obtuse and glandular-mucronulate at the apex, pale, glaucous and glabrous or very nearly so beneath, spar- ingly pubescent above. 9"-i8" long, the margins ciliolate; flowers l-S in the umbels, spreading, becoming erect; pedicels 4'-l' long, glandular; calyx-lobes short and broad, ciliate and pubescent; corolla urn-shaped, about 2" long; filaments pubes- cent below; capsule oblong or obovoid, erect, about 2" high, glabrous; seeds long-appendaged at each end t to Montana. Oregon and
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