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ANDROMEDA ARBOREA.
SORREL-TREE. SOUR-WOOD.
Decandria monogynia, Linn. Ericae, Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Calix 5-parted, minute, inferior. Corolla more or less ovate, or sub-cylindric, smooth;
border 5-cleft, reflected. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved ; valve producing dissepiments
from the middle, margin naked.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Branches terete; leaves oblong, acuminate; mucronate-serrulate, smooth ; panicles
terminal, many-spiked; corollas ovoid-cylindrical, pubescent; anthers
linear, unawned. Willd.
A t r e e , from twenty to fifty,* or sixty feetf in height. Trunk from
six to twelve and fifteen inches in diameter, covered with a thick
and furrowed bark. Branches terete; bark of the annual twigs of a
* U1 have no where seen the Sorrel Tree of ampler dimensions than in the fertile
vallies at the foot of the lofty mountains of North Carolina, particularly in those
whose waters unite in the northern branch of the river Catabaw, about thirty miles
from Morgantown, and three hundred miles from Charleston. In these vallies I have
measured Sorrel Trees which were fifty feet high, and twelve or fifteen inches in
diameter.” Mich. North American Sylva.
| Mich. FI. Boreali-Am. and Elliot.