. 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 . 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 re
. 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 . 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 recurved ; capsule s-lobed : anther-sacs Racemes erect or spreading; capsule not lobed ; j I. Eubotrys reciirva ("Ruckl.) Britton. Moun- tain Eubotrys. Fig. 3239. Andromeda recurva Buckl. Amer. Tourn. Sci. 45: 172. 1843. Leucothoe recurva A. Gray. Man. Ed. 2, 232. 1856. A widely branched shrub, 2°-io° high, similar to the follow'ing species. Leaves thin, deciduous, ovate, ovate- lanceolate, or oval, often acuminate, pubescent on the veins beneath, 2-4' long; racemes terminating the branches, unfolding before the leaves, recurved, soli- tary or clustered; calyx 2-bracteolate, the bractlets per- sistent; sepals ovate; corolla about 3" long; anther- sacs l-awned; capsule strongly 5-lobed, about 2" in diameter and i" high; seeds broadly winged. In dry woods, mountains of Virginia to Tennessee. Georgia and Alabama. April-May.
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