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  KEY 
  AND 
  FLORA 
  

  

  Shrubs 
  with 
  showy 
  flowers. 
  Anthers 
  at 
  first 
  held 
  in 
  pocket- 
  

   like 
  depressions 
  in 
  the 
  corolla. 
  Kalmia, 
  II 
  

   Shrubs 
  with 
  small, 
  mostly 
  white, 
  urn-shaped 
  flowers. 
  

  

  Lyonia, 
  III 
  

  

  A 
  prostrate 
  plant, 
  hardly 
  at 
  all 
  shrubby. 
  Leaves 
  rather 
  large, 
  

  

  often 
  1| 
  in. 
  wide, 
  and 
  veiny. 
  Epig?ea, 
  IV 
  

  

  A 
  trailing 
  plant 
  with 
  small 
  (about 
  ^ 
  in. 
  wide), 
  thick, 
  evergreen 
  

  

  leaves. 
  Arctostaphylos, 
  V 
  

  

  B 
  

  

  Shrubs. 
  Flowers 
  epigynous 
  ; 
  corolla 
  sympetalous. 
  Fruit 
  a 
  true 
  berry 
  or 
  

   resembling 
  one. 
  

  

  Fruit 
  a 
  berry-like 
  drupe, 
  with 
  10 
  nutlets 
  which 
  resemble 
  seeds. 
  

  

  Gaylussacia, 
  VI 
  

   Fruit 
  a 
  berry 
  with 
  many 
  small 
  seeds. 
  Vaccinium, 
  VII 
  

  

  I. 
  RHODODENDRON 
  L. 
  

  

  Shrubs, 
  often 
  much 
  branched. 
  Leaves 
  alternate, 
  thin, 
  

   deciduous. 
  Flowers 
  very 
  showy, 
  in 
  terminal 
  umbels, 
  from 
  

   scaly 
  buds 
  which 
  became 
  well 
  developed 
  the 
  previous 
  season. 
  

   Calyx 
  very 
  small, 
  5-parted. 
  Corolla 
  bell-shaped, 
  the 
  tube 
  

   long 
  and 
  slender, 
  the 
  limb 
  spreading 
  and 
  somewhat 
  one-sided. 
  

   Stamens 
  5 
  or 
  10, 
  declined 
  ; 
  anthers 
  awnless. 
  Style 
  long 
  and 
  

   slender, 
  declined; 
  stigma 
  knobbed. 
  Capsule 
  oblong 
  or 
  linear, 
  

   5-celled, 
  many-seeded 
  ; 
  seeds 
  very 
  small, 
  scale-like. 
  

  

  1. 
  R. 
  viscosum 
  Torr. 
  SWAMP 
  HONEYSUCKLE, 
  SWAMP 
  PINK. 
  A 
  

  

  shrub, 
  4-6 
  ft. 
  high 
  ; 
  branches 
  hairy. 
  Leaves 
  obovate, 
  leathery, 
  

   mucronate 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  mostly 
  smooth 
  above, 
  downy 
  on 
  the 
  veins 
  

   beneath 
  ; 
  petioles 
  very 
  short. 
  Flowers 
  appearing 
  later 
  than 
  the 
  

   leaves, 
  white, 
  fragrant, 
  1^-2 
  in. 
  long; 
  tube 
  long, 
  glandular-viscid. 
  

   Capsule 
  erect, 
  ]-| 
  in. 
  long, 
  bristly. 
  In 
  swamps.* 
  

  

  2. 
  R. 
  nudiflorum 
  Torr. 
  WILD 
  HONKYSUCKI.I 
  , 
  KI.KCTION 
  PINK. 
  

   A 
  branching 
  shrub, 
  l-(i 
  ft. 
  high 
  ; 
  twigs 
  smooth 
  or 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  coarse 
  

   hairs. 
  Leaves 
  obovate 
  or 
  oblong, 
  ciliate-serrate, 
  downy, 
  becoming 
  

   smooth 
  above 
  ; 
  petioles 
  short. 
  Flowers 
  appearing 
  with 
  or 
  before 
  the 
  

   leaves, 
  pink 
  or 
  white, 
  sometimes 
  yellowish, 
  fragrant, 
  1-2 
  in. 
  wide, 
  

   tube 
  downy 
  but 
  not 
  glandular. 
  Capsule 
  erect, 
  linear-oblong, 
  f-J 
  in. 
  

   long. 
  Swamps 
  and 
  banks 
  of 
  streams 
  ; 
  flowers 
  extremely 
  variable 
  in 
  

   size 
  and 
  color.* 
  

  

  