KALMIA LATIFOLIA. 
Mountain laurel. 
PLATE XI. 
Te Swedish botanist, Peter Kalm, a pupil of 
Linnzus, who travelled in North America in 
1748—9, has had the honor of giving name to one 
of the most elegant genera of flowering shrubs 
which our continent produces. The genus named 
Kalmia by Linneus, includes several species, of 
singular beauty, among which the Mountain lau- 
rel is much the largest and most elegant, as well as 
the one whose properties have received most atten- 
tion. Its occurrence in the United States is very 
frequent, and its common appellations of course va- 
rious. The names of Laurel, Lambkill, Ivy, Spoon- 
wood, and Calico bush, it seems, are applied to it in 
various parts of the country. This shrub grows in 
the southern parts of New Hampshire, and is oc- 
casionally met with throughout Massachusetts. 
In the Middle States it becomes more frequent. 
