. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structures, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. Ordek 73.—BRICACE^. 489 O. arboreum DC. Ohio, Penn., along the Alleghany Mts. to Flor. A fine tree, 40—50f high, trunk 10—15' diam. Bark thick and deeply furrowed. Leaves 4 —5' by IJ—2', villous when young, at length smooth, with a distinctly acid taste. Flowers white, 3" long. Capsule pyramidal, 5-sided. June, July, f 13. MENZIE'SIA, Smith. (To Menzies, the
. Class-book of botany [microform] : being outlines of the structures, physiology, and classification of plants : with a flora of the United States and Canada. Botany; Botany; Plants; Plants; Botanique; Botanique; Plantes; Botanique. Ordek 73.—BRICACE^. 489 O. arboreum DC. Ohio, Penn., along the Alleghany Mts. to Flor. A fine tree, 40—50f high, trunk 10—15' diam. Bark thick and deeply furrowed. Leaves 4 —5' by IJ—2', villous when young, at length smooth, with a distinctly acid taste. Flowers white, 3" long. Capsule pyramidal, 5-sided. June, July, f 13. MENZIE'SIA, Smith. (To Menzies, the discoverer of the original species (M. ferruginea) in Oregon.) Calyx deeply 4 or 6-cleft; corolla urceolate or campanulate, 4 or 5-lobed ; stamens 8 to 10, anthers open- ing by terminal pores; capsule 4 to 5-celle(l, the dissepinjents made by the introflexed margins of the valves; seeds many.—Low, shrubby plants, of various habits. Fls. in terminal clusters. S , Salisb. Leaves evergrcon, lieath-like. Flownvs 5-pnrtcrt No. 1 g Mkn/.iesa proper. Leaves deciduous. Flowers 4-partod No. 2 1 M. tazifolia Robbing. Mountain Heath. St. prostrate at base; Ive. linear, obtuse, with minute, cariQaginous teeth; ped. terminal, aggregate, l-Howered; Hs. campanulate, decandrous; eal. acute.—-Shores of the " lake" on the White Mts. N. II., on Mt. Katahdin, Me. It resembles a heatii in its flowers; and .some of the fir tribes in ifi leaves and stems. St. decumbt:;^ at , 6 to 10' long, with crowded Ivs. above which are 5 to7 ' in length. Fls. drooping, purple, at the top of the highest branch, the colored ped. 18'' in length. Fr. erect. Jri. 2 M. ferruginea Smith, /i. globulaeis Sims. Branches and pedicels with scat- tered hairs; Ivs. oval-lanceolate, ciliate above and on the veins beneath; apex tipped with a gland; fls. in terminal panicles, nodding on the slender pedicels. —Mts. Penn. to Car. abundant near Winchester, Va. (Pursh). Shrub 4f high. Fls. g
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