. 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. 690 ERICACEAE. Vol. II. by a terminal pore and bearing a deflexed awn on the back. Ovary s-celled; style slender; stigma not lobed. Capsule globose to ovoid. Seeds several or numerous with a cellular- reticulated coat. [Named from one of the Muses.] About 6 species. 2 of eastern North America, i of western Cuba, the others Asiatic. Type species: Pieris formosa D. Don.
. 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. 690 ERICACEAE. Vol. II. by a terminal pore and bearing a deflexed awn on the back. Ovary s-celled; style slender; stigma not lobed. Capsule globose to ovoid. Seeds several or numerous with a cellular- reticulated coat. [Named from one of the Muses.] About 6 species. 2 of eastern North America, i of western Cuba, the others Asiatic. Type species: Pieris formosa D. Don. I. Pieris floribunda (Pursh) Benth. & Hook. Mountain Fetter-bush. Fig. 3242. Andromeda floribunda Pursh. Fl. Am. Sept. 293. 1814. Portnna floribunda Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II) 8: 268. 1843. Pieris floribunda Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. 2: 588. 1876. A shrub, 2°-6° high with nearly erect bristly or strigose-pubescent very leafy branches. Leaves oblong to ovate-lanceolate, coriaceous, persistent, e^"ergreen, serrulate and bristly-ciliate, glabrous above, black-dotted beneath, acute or acuminate at the apex, usually rounded or obtuse at the base, ii'-3' long, i'-i' wide; petioles 2"-4" long, very bristly, at least when young; flowers white, in ter- minal clustered slender dense racemes, drooping, about 3*" long; calyx-segments ovate-lanceolate, acute, valvate in the 5-angled bud; corolla slightly 5-angled, 5-saccate at the base; filaments unappen- daged; anther-sacs each i-awned; capsule globose- ovoid, about 2" high, longer than the slender style; seeds linear-oblong, the testa loose and cellular. Mountains of Virginia to Georgia. May. 18. NEOPIERIS Britton, n. gen. Shrubs or small trees. Leaves alternate, persistent or tardily deciduous, petioled, entire, firm in texture. Flowers mostly white, in axillary bracted umbels, the pedicels commonly 1-3-bracteolate. Calyx deeply s-parted, the lobes ovate, acute, valvate in the bud, soon spread- ing
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