medium pilosa: anth. oblongee, breves, verticales, medio dorso affizet, intros 
verse, Serruginee, apice Eforeninat. Germ. virens, hirsutum; stylus 
@quans stamina, nisi propê basin glaberrimus ; stig. virens, capitatum, trans» 
versim compressum, papillosum. ` ` vt 
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We have enumerated a part of the many varieties of 
this beautiful shrub already known in our gardens. Ac- 
cording to Mr. Pursh the species is found in North 
America, from Canada to Georgia, and sometimes with 
double flowers. In the neighbourhood of Philadelphia 
jt is known to vary with from 10 to 20 stamens; a proof, 
Mr. Pursh observes, of its being of the same natural, genus 
as RHODODENDRON, which is on the other hand freguently 
found with fewer than ten stamens, its general quota. But 
all AzALEAS are said to have occasionally more than their 
standard number of five stamens. 
A hardy plant, rarely much above three feet high, de- 
cidaous; branches subverticillate, lowermost but little 
above the root, spindled, straight, smooth, naked, hazel- 
brown, those of the same year hairy. Leaves appearing 
rather later than the inflorescence, surrounding the young 
green branches, of the same colour on both sides, two inches . 
or more long, nearly smooth, ciliate; rib downy above, ` 
with soft bristles beneath. Umbel terminal, many-flow- 
ered, partly preceding the foliage; pedicles twice shorter 
than the flowers or shorter, hairy, parted by small narrow 
bractes. Cal. small, herbaceous hirsute and fringed, bila- 
biate, upper lip with recurved divaricate divisions, lower 
with minute ones. Corolla not viscid, but pubeseent out- ` 
wards, rather more than an inch deep, funnelformedly rin- 
gent, geniculately bent, upwards flesh-coloured or pink, 
downwards of a deep rose-colour, glittering ; tube slightly 
compressed; limb rather shorter, segments acumjpate, un- 
dulate, 3 upper converging imbrieately, outer middle one 
broadest, two lowermost divaricate. Stamens protruded a 
third farther, assurgent, pubescent below their middle: 
anthers with a doubly perforated point. Germen hirsute? 
style equal to stamens: stigma green, capitate, transversely 
compressed, roughened. N 
ropagated by layers and imported seed. Thrives best 
in bog-earth. The drawing was made in April, from 4 
plant in the collection of Colonel Ansley, at Ottachoust, * 
"North End, Hammersmith. . o 
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a Calyx. bStamens. c Pistil. 
