. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 682 ERICACEAE. Vol. I. Menziesia pilosa (Michx.) Pers. Alleghany Menziesia. Minnie-bush. Fig. 3224. Azalea pilosa Michx. in Lara. Journ. Nat. Hist, i : 410. 1792. Menstesia pilosa Pers. Syn. i : 420. 1805. Menziesia globularis Salisb. Parad. Lond. 44, 1806. A shrub, 2°-6° high, the twigs more or less chaffy and with stiff hairs. Leaves oval, oblong or obov
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 682 ERICACEAE. Vol. I. Menziesia pilosa (Michx.) Pers. Alleghany Menziesia. Minnie-bush. Fig. 3224. Azalea pilosa Michx. in Lara. Journ. Nat. Hist, i : 410. 1792. Menstesia pilosa Pers. Syn. i : 420. 1805. Menziesia globularis Salisb. Parad. Lond. 44, 1806. A shrub, 2°-6° high, the twigs more or less chaffy and with stiff hairs. Leaves oval, oblong or obovate, thin, obtuse or acutish and glandular-mucronulate at the apex, narrowed at the base, rough-hairy above, pale glaucescent and sometimes chaffy on the veins beneath, i'-2' long, the margins ciUate; petioles 2"-$" long, pubescent; flowers few in the umbels, drooping; pedicels filiform, glandular, ¥-1' long; calyx-lobes short and broad, hirsute-ciliate; corolla urn-shaped or globose- ovoid, 2"-3" long; filaments glabrous; capsule ovoid, about 2" high, erect, glandular-bristly; seeds pointed at each end. In mountain woods, Pennsylvania to Georgia. May-June. 2. Menziesia glabella A. Gray. Smooth Menziesia. Fig. 3225. Menziesia glabella A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. A. 2 : Part i, 39. 1878. Similar to the preceding species, the twigs less chaffy. Leaves obovate, obtuse and glandular-mucronulate at the apex, pale, glaucous and glabrous or very nearly so beneath, spar- ingly pubescent above, 9"-i8" long, the margins ciliolate; flowers 1-5 in the umbels, spreading, becoming erect; pedicels V-i' long, glandular; calyx-lobes short and broad, ciliate and pubescent; corolla urn-shaped, about 2" long; filaments pubes- cent below; capsule oblong or obovoid, erect, about 2" high, glabrous; seeds long-appendaged at each end Minnesota Point, Lake Superior, west to Montana, Oregon and British Columbia. May-June. 6. DENDRIUM Desv. Journ. Bot. (II.) i: 36.
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