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Kalmia Angustifolia. Narrow-Leav'd 



Kalmia. 

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Clajs and Order. 

 Decakdria Moxogynia. 



Generic Character. 

 Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. hypocrateriformis, limbo fubtus quinque 

 corni. Cap/. 5-locularis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 

 KALMIA angnfiifolia foliis lanceolatis, corymbis lateralibus. 



Linn. Syjl. Veget. ed. 14. Murr. p. 404. Ait. 



Ktw. v. 2. p. 64. Gronov. Fl. Virg. p. 65. 

 CHAMiEDAPHNE fempervirens, foliis oblongis anguftis, 



foliorum fafciculis oppofitis e foliorum alis. Catcjb. 



Carol, app. t. 17. f. 1. 

 LEDUM floribus bullatis fafciculatim ex alis foliorum oppofitis 



nafcentibus, foliis lanceolatis integerrimis glabns* 



Trew. Ehr. t. 38. 



In this work we have already given three different fpecies 

 of Kalmia, two commonly, and one more rarely cultivated 

 with us, we mean the hirfuta, and which indeed we are forry 

 to find is fcarccly to be kept alive in this country by the molt 

 fkilful management ; to thefe we now add another fpecies, -a 

 native alfo of North-America, introduced by Peter Col- 

 li nson, Efq. in 1736, two years after he had introduced the 

 latifolia ; Gates by mentions its having flowered at Pcckham 

 in 1743; it is a low fhrub, rarely rifing above the height of 

 two feet, growing fpontaneoufly in fwampy ground, and 

 flowering with us from May to July ; there are two principal 

 varieties of it, one with pale and another with deep red 

 flowers ; thefe two plants differ alio in their habits, the red 

 one, the molt humble of the two, not only produces the molt 

 brilliant flowers, but thofe in greater abundance than the other; 

 Mr. Whitley, who has thefe plants in great perfection, aflures 

 me that it ufually blows in the autumn as well as fu mmcr. 



This fhrub is extremely hardy, thriving belt in bog earth, 

 and is propagated moft commonly by layers. 



Like the latifolia, it is regarded in America as poifonoiis 

 to ftieep. 



