102 ERICACEAE (HEATH FAMILY) 



R. nudiflorum, PURPLE AZALEA. Leaves oblanceolate to obovate, 

 sparingly pubescent ; pedicels strigose hairy ; flowers appearing before 

 or with the leaves; corolla flesh-color, pink, or purple, the tube 

 strigose, scarcely longer than the ample lobes ; the 5 stamens and 

 style long exserted; capsule strigose. Open woods and swamps. May, 

 June. 



KALMIA 



Evergreen, mostly smooth shrubs, with alternate or opposite, 

 entire, thick leaves. Showy flowers. Bell-shaped corolla with 10 

 pouches receiving as many anthers ; and 5-celled capsule. 



K. latifolia, MOUNTAIN LAUREL. Leaves mostly alternate, bright 

 green both sides, ovate-lanceolate or oblong; corymbs terminal, many- 

 flowered, clammy-pubescent; flowers pink or white. Rocky hills. May 

 to July. 



ANDROMEDA 



Evergreen shrubs, with thick leaves. Clusters of pink or white 

 flowers. Urn-shaped to cylindrical 5-toothed corolla, 10 stamens; 

 2 4-awned anthers; and 5-celled capsule. 



A. glaucophylla, BOG ROSEMARY. Low shrubs with creeping base; 

 leaves linear to narrowly oblong, white beneath with close fine pu- 

 bescence; branchlets and bud-scales glaucous; flowers on thick curved 

 pedicels in terminal umbels ; capsule depressed, turban-shaped, glaucous. 

 Bogs and banks. May to July. 



CHAMAEDAPHNE 



Low and much branched shrubs, with 

 nearly evergreen and thick scurfy leaves. 

 White flowers in i-sided small racemes in 

 the upper axils. 10 stamens with anthers 

 tapering into a tubular beak, and a depressed 

 5-celled capsule. 



C. calyculata, LEATHER LEAF. Leaves ob- 

 long, obtuse, flat. Bogs. April, May. 



EPIGAEA 



Chamaedaphne calyculata, 



Leather leaf. Prostrate or trailing, scarcely shrubby 



