170 Class X, Order 1. 



grounds, and known by the names sheep poison, lambkill, low 

 laurel, &c. Leaves on short petioles, scattered or in threes, lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, smooth, evergreen. Flowers in lateral corymbs, 

 proceeding from the axils of the leaves, and forming a sort of 

 whorl round the stem. June. 



KALMIA GLAUCA. L. Glaucous Kalmia. 



Branches ancipital ; leaves opposite, subsessile, lan- 

 ceolate, revolute at the margin, glaucous underneath ; 

 corymbs terminal, with smooth stalks. 



A small shrub of northern bogs and mountains. The young 

 branches are two edged. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, revolute 

 at the margin, white underneath. Corymbs terminal. Pedun- 

 cles filiform, each issuing from a pair of concave, obtuse, smooth 

 bractes. Segments of the calyx ovate, obtuse, reddish with a 

 white margin. Corolla purple with five lobes and ten de- 

 pressions. Anthers oblong, blackish. Style longer than the sta- 

 mens. Keene, New-Hampshire ; on the White mountains, &c. 

 June. 



173. PODALYRIA. 



PODALYRIA TINCTORIA. IVilld. Wild ludigO. 



Glabrous ; stipules setaceous ; leaves subsessile ; 

 leafets wedge-obovate ; flowers in terminal spikes. 

 Mich. abr. 



Syn. SoPHORA TINCTORIA. L. 



BAPTISIA TINCTORIA. JVutt. 



A very common, bushy plant, found in woods and dry soil? 

 Stem smooth, very much branched. Leaves in threes on a short 

 petiole ; leafets rounded at the end, and tapering to an acute 

 base. Stipules very small, caducous. Flowers in a loose spike, 

 on slender peduncles, yellow ; banner rather shorter than the 

 wings and keel. Legumes short, rounded, of a bluish cast. 

 August. Perennial. 



For the medicinal properties of this plant, see Dr. Thatcher's 

 Dispensatory. 



