. 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. Botany. ERICACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Leucothoe Catesbaei (Walt.) A. Gray. Catesby's Leucothoe. Fig. 3238. Andromeda Catesbaei Walt. Fl. Car. 137. 1788. Andromeda spinulosa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 293. 1814. L. spinulosa G. Don, Card. Diet. 3: 832. 1834. Leucothoe Catesbaei A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 252. 1856. A shrub, 3°-6° high, similar to the preceding species, the twigs glabrous. Leaves
. 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. Botany. ERICACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Leucothoe Catesbaei (Walt.) A. Gray. Catesby's Leucothoe. Fig. 3238. Andromeda Catesbaei Walt. Fl. Car. 137. 1788. Andromeda spinulosa Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 293. 1814. L. spinulosa G. Don, Card. Diet. 3: 832. 1834. Leucothoe Catesbaei A. Gray, Man. Ed. 2, 252. 1856. A shrub, 3°-6° high, similar to the preceding species, the twigs glabrous. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceo- late, coriaceous and evergreen, acuminate at the apex, mostly rounded at the base, sharply serrulate with bristle-pointed teeth nearly all around, 3'-6' long, 9"-i8" wide; petioles 4"-8" long; racemes dense, axillary, many-flowered, catkin-like when expanding; bracts per- sistent, borne at the bases of the short petioles; sepals ovate or ovate-oblong, not at all or scarcely imbricated when the flower is expanded; corolla narrow^ly cylindric, about 2i" long; capsule depressed, strongly 5-lobed, about 2" in diameter. Along streams, Virginia to Tennessee and Georgia. April. Dog-hobble. 15. EUBOTRYS Nntt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 8: 269. 1843. Shrubs with broad deciduous serrulate leaves, and small white short-pedicelled bracted flowers in dense i-sided racemes, lateral or terminating the twigs, the bracts deciduous, the calyx 2-bracteolate, the pedicels jointed with the rachis. Sepals 5, rigid, imbricated. Corolla nearly cylindric, S-toothed, the teeth recurved. Stamens 10, included; filaments flat, nar- rowed above; anthers oblong, each sac i-awned or 2-awned. Style slender, long; stigma capitate, truncate. Capsule depressed-globose, 5-celled, 5-valved. Seeds numereus, angular and flattened or winged. [Greek, referring to the racemose inflorescence.] ves of North America. Type species Racemes r
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