2 Rhodora [JANUARY 
in cultivation the tendency towards staminody is much less marked 
than in the specimen described by Gray and preserved in the Gray 
Herbarium, also Professor Stone did not observe it in the plant he dis- 
covered. 
VARIATION IN THE COLOR OF THE COROLLA. 
KarMrA LATIFOLIA f. alba (Mouillefert) — K. latifolia alba Mouil- 
lefert 1. c.— Kalmia latifolia var. alba Lavallé, Arb. Segrez. 159. 1877 
— Rehder in Bailey l. c. This form has white flowers with the purple 
markings very faint. 
KarMra LATIFOLIA f. RUBRA Sweet ex K. Koch, Dendr. II. 1.152. 
1872.— K. latifolia var. rubra Rehder in Bailey l. c.— K. lati- 
folia Pavartii André, Rev. Hort. 1888. 540, with color. pl.— Mouil- 
lefert l.c. Flowers deep pink; the leaves are usually of a somewhat 
darker green and a little more thickish than in the type. Like the 
preceding it is connected with the light pink flowered type by inter- 
mediate forms. 
KALMIA LATIFOLIA f. fuscata (Rehder) — K. latifolia var. fuscata 
Rehder, Móller's Deutsch. Girtn.-Zeit. XVIII. 578. 1903. Flowers 
somewhat smaller inside with a broad brownish purple or almost 
chocolate colored band dissolved toward the base into brown dots and 
edged at the upper margin with a narrow pink border, outside whitish 
with the dark color shining through. New York: Canaan Four 
Corners, Dr. Childs, June 23, 1903 (type in Herb. Arnold Arb.). 
This form is not in cultivation; living branches sent to the Arboretum 
and grafted failed to grow. 
VARIATION IN THE SHAPE OF THE LEAVES. 
KALMIA LATIFOLIA f. MYRTIFOLIA K. Koch, Dendr. II. 1. 153. 1872. 
— Kalmia latifolia var. myrtifolia Jäger, Ziergehilze 280. 1865.— 
E. S. Rand, Rhododendrons 125. 1871.— Rehder in Bailey l. c.— 
K. latifolia f. minor K. Koch l. c.— K. latifolia var. nana Lavallé, 
Arb. Segrez. 139. 1877.— K. myrtifolia André, Rev. Hort. 1883. 10, 
fig. 1. Leaves small, lance-oblong, 2-3 or rarely to 4 cm. long and 
about 1 cm. broad; usually only a few feet high and forming a dense 
and compact bush. 
KALMIA LATIFOLIA f. obtusata (Rehder) — Kalmia latifolia var. 
