Part 1, 1914] ERICACEAE 53 
lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, somewhat acuminate, puberulent, and sometimes glandular; 
corolla pink or purple, 5-7 mm. wide; style sometimes finely pubescent; capsules spheroidal, 
2.5-3.5 mm. wide, copiously puberulent, often pale, and somewhat glandular. 
TYPE Locality: Flat Rock, North Carolina. 
DISTRIBUTION: Virginia to South Carolina. 
ILLUSTRATION: Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. ed. 2. f. 3229. 
4. Kalmia microphylla (Hook.) A. Heller, Bull. Torrey Club 25: 581. 
1898. 
Kalmia glauca microphylla Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 41. 1834. 
A diffuse-branched shrub 1-2 dm. tall or less, with glabrous or puberulent twigs; leaf- 
blades obovate, oval, or ovate, or sometimes broadly oblong, 0.5-2 cm. long, obtuse, glabrous, 
flat or nearly so, deep-green above, pale or glaucescent beneath, sessile or nearly so; clusters 
few-flowered; pedicels slender, glabrous, mostly 2.5-4 cm. long; calyx 5-6.5 mm. wide, the 
lobes oblong to ovate, obtuse; corolla lilac-purple or rose-purple, 8-12 mm. wide; capsules 
spheroidal, 5-6 mm. wide, glabrous. 
Type LocaLity: Rocky Mountains. 
DIstRIBUTION: Yukon to Montana, Colorado, and California. 
ILLUSTRATION: Brown & Schaffer, Alp. Pl. Can. #1. 61. 
5. Kalmia occidentalis Small, sp. nov. 
A branching shrub 1-3 dm. tall, with glaucous, glabrous twigs or these merely puberulent 
near the tips; leaf-blades oblong to oblong-lanceolate or oblong-ovate, mostly 1-3.5 cm. long, 
flat or slightly revolute, deep-green above, glaucous beneath, glabrous, sessile or very short- 
petioled; clusters few—several-flowered; pedicels stoutish, 2-3.5 cm. long, glabrous; calyx 8-10 
cm. wide, the lobes of an oblong type, or individually ovate, obtuse; corolla rose-purple, 1.5-2 
em. wide; capsules spheroidal, 5.5-6.5 mm. wide, glabrous. 
Type collected in the foothills of Mt. Rainier, Washington, 1883, Mrs. Bailey Willis (herb. 
Columbia Univ.). : 
DistrrisuTion: Alaska to Washington. 
6. Kalmia polifolia Wangenh. Beob. Ges. Nat. Freunde 
Berlin 2: 130. 1788. 
Kalmia glauca Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 64. 1789. 
Kalmia glauca rosmarinifolia Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 296. 1814, 
An erect or somewhat spreading shrub mostly 3-7 dm. tall, with glabrous or puberulent 
twigs; leaf-blades oblong to linear-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, often apparently narrow on 
account of the strongly revolute margins, mostly 2—3 cm. long, obtuse, glabrous, bright-green 
. above, glaucous beneath, sessile or nearly so; clusters few-several-flowered; pedicels slender,’ 
glabrous, 2-3 cm. long; calyx 5-6 mm. wide, the lobes ovate to broadly oblong, obtuse; corolla 
rose-purple, 1-1.5 cm. wide; capsules spheroidal-ovoid or globose, 5-6 mm. wide, glabrous. 
TVPE LocaLity: Canada. : 
DISTRIBUTION: Labrador and Hudson Bay to Newfoundland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and 
Minnesota. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Beob. Ges. Nat. Freunde Berlin 2: pl. 5; Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: gl. 8; Meerb. 
Pl. Sel. pl. 21; Bot. Mag. pl. 177; Bot. Cab. pl. 1508; Lam. Tab. Encyc. pl. 363; Nouv. Duham. 1: 
pl. 45; Britt. & Brown, Ill. Fl. f. 2758; ed. 2. f. 3231; Goodale, Wild Fl. Am. #l. 18; Mathews, Field 
Book 335. 
7. Kalmia latifolia I. Sp. Pl. 391. 1753. 
An irregularly branched shrub or small tree, with sparingly glandular-pubescent twigs 
and clammy-ptubescent inflorescence; leaf-blades elliptic or oval, varying to broadest above or 
below the middle, mostly 5-8 cm. long, acute or slightly acuminate at both ends, dark-green 
above, pale-green beneath, with the midrib prominent beneath, manifestly petioled; clusters 
usually many-flowered; pedicels slender, villous, or merely puberulent in age, 1-3.5 cm. long; 
calyx 7-8 mm. wide, the lobes oblong, oblong-ovate, or lanceolate, usually glandular-ciliate,, 
