. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. ERICACEAE — ANDROMEDA 673 Leucothoe Catesbaei, (Walt.) Gray Shrubs 2-4 feet high; leaves ovate-lanceolate; taper-pointed; serrulate, ever- green, with spinulose teeth; racemes dense, many-flowered; bracts borne at the bases of the short petioles; corolla narrowly cylindric; anthers awned; capsules depressed. Leucothoe racemosa, Gray Shrubs 4-10 feet high; branches and racemes mostly erect; leaves oblong to ovate, generally acute at e
. A manual of poisonous plants, chiefly of eastern North America, with brief notes on economic and medicinal plants, and numerous illustrations. Poisonous plants. ERICACEAE — ANDROMEDA 673 Leucothoe Catesbaei, (Walt.) Gray Shrubs 2-4 feet high; leaves ovate-lanceolate; taper-pointed; serrulate, ever- green, with spinulose teeth; racemes dense, many-flowered; bracts borne at the bases of the short petioles; corolla narrowly cylindric; anthers awned; capsules depressed. Leucothoe racemosa, Gray Shrubs 4-10 feet high; branches and racemes mostly erect; leaves oblong to ovate, generally acute at each end; sepals ovate-lanceolate; anther cells 2-awned; stigma capitate; capsule depressed-globose; seeds smooth and wingless. Distribution. Moist thickets and swamps from Massachusetts, to Florida, and Louisiana. Poisonous properties. Both species are known to be poisonous in the Alle- ghany Mountain region to all kinds of stock; probably contain the same principles found in other plants of this Fig. 384. Swamp Leucothoe (Leucothoe racemosa). A well known poisonous plant of the Alleghany Mountain region and the Southern states. (Charlotte M. King.) Andromeda, h Shrubs or small trees; leaves evergreen, short petioled; flowers in panicles, racemes or umbellate clusters; calyx persistent, without bractlets; corolla globose, urn-shaped, 5-parted; stamens 10, included; anthers fixed near the middle and opening by a pore; ovary S-celled with columnar style; capsule globular and S-celled, many seeded; seeds smooth. A small genus of 13 species found in Eastern Asia, the Himalayas, North America and Europe. Andromeda PoUfolia L. Wild Rosemary. Fetter-bush A glabrous shrub 6-19 inches high, coriaceous; leaves with strongly revoiute. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pammel, L. H. (Louis Herman
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