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A shrub seldom more than 2 feet high. Leaves sempervirent, 

 on short petioles, very smooth, somewhat gloucous beneath, 

 scattered or in threes. Floivers not more than one third as 

 large as in the preceding, but deeper rose-colour, in small la- 

 teral corymbs, and thus appearing verticillate. Capsule smooth. 

 Hab. In sandy woods and in swanips. June — July. 



Dnvarf-la u r el.— Kill- calf. 

 This and the preceding species are poisonous, and frequently 

 kill sheep. 



S.K, glauca Ait. : branches ancipitous 5 leaves oppo- 

 site, sjbsessile, oblong, smooth, glaucous beneath, revolute on 

 the margin ; corymbs terminal and axillary, bracteate; pe- 

 duncles and cal}x very smooth. Ait. Kew. II. p. G4. t. 8. 

 W illd, Spec.U.^.&OX. But.Mag.m, Lam.Jll.t. 

 163. Purs h Fl. I, p. 296. K. polifolia Wa ng. Act, 

 Soc. Berol. VIII. p. 129. t. 5. 



A shrub about 18 inches high, with the branches distinctly an- 

 cipitous. Leaves an inch long, almost sessile, generally ob- 

 tuse. Umbels 8 — lO-fiov/tvad ; /ledicels slender, with ovate 

 bracts at the base. Segments of the calyx obtuse. Corolla 

 larger than in K. an^usii/olia^ pale rose-colour. Ca/isule 

 large, smooth. 



Hab. In sphagnous swamps and in mountain bogs. Hudson, 

 New-York. Also/i. Plainfield, Goshen, Hawley, Sec, Mas- 

 sachusetts. Porter. On the White Hills of New-Hamp- 

 shire. Big e low. In Pennsylvania. Muhlenberg. July, 



/S. rosmarmifo/ia Ph.: leaves linear, conspicuously revo- 

 lute, nearly green beneath. P ur s h 1. c. 



A low shrub with few branches. Leaves scarcely 2 lines broad, 

 slightly glaucous beneath. Umbels terminal. Flowers, S^c. as 

 in the preceding variety- 



Hab. Near Albany, New-York. Pursh and L.C.Beck. 

 Litchfitld, Connecticut. Brace. July. 



This is certainly but a variety of K. glauca, as it sometimes 

 occurs with broader leaves, which are distinctly glaucous be- 

 neath. 



282. RHODODENDRON. L. 



Cahjx 5-parted. Corolla subinfundibuliform, 5-cleft. 

 Stamens 5—10, declinate; anthtfrs opening by 2 ter- 

 minal pores. Capsule 5-ceiled, 5-valved, opening at 

 the summit. D. Don, in Eduu Phil. Jour. VI. p. 

 49. Rhododendron et Azalea 5j&/?. Lm., &:c. 

 Lam. III. t. 110. f. 2. & 364. Nat. Ord. Rhodo- 

 BENDRACE/E J u s s. Mouutain-lauTel 



