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Kalmia Latifolia. Bro ad-Leav ? d 



Kalmia. 



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Clafs and Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia, 



Generic Character, 



Calyx 5-partitus. Cor. hypocrateriformis: limbo fubtus quin- 

 quecorni. Cap/. 5-locularis. 



Specific Charatler and Synonyms. 



1 

 KALMIA latifolia foliis ovato-ellipticis ternis fparfifque, cO- 

 rymbis terminalibus. Linn. Syft. Vegetab. p. 64. 

 ed. 14. Murr. Ait. Hort. Kew. V. 2. p. 64. 

 ANDROMEDA foliis ovatis obtufis, corollis corymbofis 

 infundibuliformis, genitalibus declinatis. 

 Fl. Virg. 160. 

 CHAM^EDAPHNE foliis tini, floribus bullatis. Cattft- 



Car. 11./. 98. 

 CISTUS chamaerhododendros Mariana laurifolia, floribus 

 expanfis, fummo ramulo in umbellam plurimis. 

 Pluck, want. 49. /. 379./. 6. The common Laurel, 

 vulgarly called Ivy. 



Profeflbr Kalm (in honour of whom Linnaeus, as before 

 has been obferved, named this genus of plants) in his travels 

 into North-America, publifhed in Englifh by Mr. Forsteb, 

 relates that he found this fpecies in various provinces of that 

 extenfwe continent, as Penfylvania, New-Jerfey, and New- 

 York, growing moll commonly on the fides of hills, fome- 

 times in woods; that it flourifhed mod on the northern 

 fides of the hills, efpecially where they were interfeeled by 

 rivulets; he obferves, that when all the other trees had lot 

 their ornaments, this enlivened the woods by the verdure o 

 its foliage, and that about the month of May, it was covere 

 with a profufion of bloffoms of unrivalled beauty. 



