oe slenderly al sidipatcay branched; leaves ‘cites, scat- 
. tered, sessile, cuneate-oblong obtuse, with a mucronulate ‘ 
point, under side glandu bescent, from— to 15 
dines long and 5 or *6 wide. F wers disposed. insessile = _ 
lateral fastigiate clusters of Ato 6 3 uncles fili- ~~ 
rm more than an inch Jong, 1-flowered, bractes very mi- 
nute. Capsules roundish, as in all the rest of the genus. = — , 
Has. v. v. In swamps betwixt Camden and Statesvilley ~~ | 
South Carolina. 5. hirsuta, Has, Constantly on the drier . 
ff _ Margins of open swamps, abundant around Sayannah in | 
= 4 ia, accompanying: the Chamerops serrulata, &C. - 
J American genus, considered poisonous and 
then fatal to cattle; it ann at not carer but A ae! oon 
deleterious honey, recently complained of in Phil elphia, 
othe cate have been collected by the bees from the flowers 
he Calico-bush ( Kalmia latifolia) which in some places 
the rocky woods and depressed summits of 
mountains, almost ina similar manner with the Erita 
vulgaris of Europe. 
ee 
x 
_ 383. RHODODENDRON, L. (Mountain-Law- 
rel.) : 
hee ot 5-parted. Corolla partly fannelform, 
ewhat oblique. Stamina depigate Cap- 
Larges or ropdinary sized shrubs, with emapiereirellt and 
Pom ow flower: - subcorymbose lateral and termi- 
i jong, 1- owebed,- bracteolate at the base. 
‘mostly terminal large and imbricated. “(anthers 
opening oy 2 terminal truncate pores.) 
_ | Spreres. (1. 2. maximum. 2: punctatum. Found occa > 
‘sionally almost to Charleston, South Carolina —8. E ie 
“Esq. 3. catawbiense. Leaves distinctly petiolavedas val, 
whitish on the under _ often as much ag = menee 
broad. 
of this very denathental genus here a 3s 4 
re, 1 in the. sarees 3 in Siberia, 1 on the summit of 
3 and ; mot india arborceeen peaperset, ; 
Ss 4 
