. 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. 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 t
. 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. 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. 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 n
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