ERICACEAE. 



VOL. II. 



2. Kalmia Carolina Small. Southern Sheep- 

 laurel. Fig. 3229. 



Kalmia Carolina Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 886. 1903. 



Similar to K. angnstifolia in habit, but with the foli- 

 age, especially the younger parts, copiously fine-pubes- 

 cent. Leaves oval to oblong, '-if long, 4"-8" wide, 

 obtuse, permanently canescent-tomentulose, at least 

 beneath and paler beneath than above ; flowers purplish, 

 3"-4i" broad, numerous in small corymbs ; pedicels very 

 slender, canescent, 3 "-6" long; calyx-segments oblong- 

 lanceolate ; style finely pubescent ; capsules spheroidal, 

 pale-pubescent and 1 glandular, about 2" in diameter. 



In open woods, Virginia and North Carolina. June-July. 



3. Kalmia latifolia L. American or Moun- 

 tain Laurel. Calico-bush. Fig. 3230. 



Kalmia latifolia L. Sp. PI. 391. 1753. 



Kalmia latifolia myrtifolia Rand, Rhodod. 125. 1876. 



A shrub with very stiff branches and terete twigs, 

 often forming dense thickets, 3-2O high, rarely 

 becoming a tree with a maximum height of about 

 40 and trunk diameter of 18'. Leaves alternate, or 

 some of them opposite, or rarely verticillate in 3's, 

 petioled, glabrous, oval, ovate-lanceolate, or elliptic, 

 usually acute at both ends, rarely narrowly oblong- 

 lanceolate, flat, green on both sides, persistent, 1'-$' 

 long, i'-ii' wide; flowers g"-i2" broad, pink to 

 white, numerous and showy in compound' terminal 

 corymbs ; pedicels bracted and 2-bracteolate at the 

 base, slender, \'-i\' long, densely glandular, erect, 

 even in fruit; calyx and corolla glandular; capsule 

 depressed-globose, 5-lobed> glandular, 2" -3" in 

 diameter; calyx and' filiform style long-persistent, 

 the latter falling when the capsule begins to open. 



In woods, preferring sandy or rocky soil, New Bruns- 

 wick to Ontario, Indiana, western Kentucky, Florida 

 and Louisiana. Wood very hard, brown ; weight per 

 cubic foot 44 Ibs. Clamoun. Spoonwood. Broad- 

 ieaved kalmia. Ivy-busn. Wood- or small laurel. Big- 

 leaved ivy. Spoonhunt. May-June. 



4. Kalmia polifolia Wang. Pale or Swamp 

 Laurel. Fig. 3231. 



K. polifolia Wang. Beob. Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 2 : 



Part 2. 130. 1788. 

 Kalmia glauca Ait. Hort. Kew. 2: 64. pi 8. 1811. 



A glabrous shrub, 6'-2 high, with erect or as- 

 cending branches, the twigs 2-edged. Leaves oppo- 

 site or sometimes in 3's, very nearly sessile, oblong 

 or linear-oblong, mostly obtuse at the apex, nar- 

 rowed at the base, green above, white-glaucous 

 beneath, '-2' long, 2"-6" wide, the margins revolute, 

 often strongly so; flowers in simple umbels terminat- 

 ing the branches, few (1-13), purple, 5"-o/' broad; 

 pedicels filiform, i'-ii' long, erect, even in fruit; 

 calyx-segments ovate, scarious-margined, acutish or 

 obtuse, persistent; capsule depressed-globose, gla- 

 brous, about 2.\" in diameter. 



In bogs, Newfoundland to Hudson Bay and Alaska, 

 south to Connecticut, northern New Jersey, Pennsylva- 

 nia, Michigan, in the Rocky Mountains to Montana, and 

 in the Sierra Nevada to California. Summer. 



