268 DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



slenderly and virgately branched; leaves deciduous, scat- 

 tered, sessile, cuneate-oblong obtuse, with a mucronulale 

 point, under side g'landulary pubescent, from 10 to 15 

 lines long and 5 or 6 wide. Flov.ers dis'posed in sessile 

 lateral fastigiate clusters of 4 to 6 in each, peduncles iili- 

 form more than an inch long, 1-ficwered, bractesvei-y mi- 

 nute. Capsules roundish, as in all the rest of the genus. 

 Hab. v. v. In swamps betwixt Camden and Statesv;l!e, 

 South Carolina. 5. hirsnia. Hab. Conbtanily on the drier 

 ximargins of open swamps, abundant around Savannah in 

 Georgia, accompan) ing the Chauhvops serndata, &,c. 



A North American genus, considered poisonous and 

 often fatal to cattle; it is also not improbable but that the 

 deleterious honey, recently complained of in Thiladeiphia, 

 might have been collected by the bees from the flowt rs 

 of the Calico-bush {Kalmia latifoUa,) which in some places 

 pervades the rocky woods and depressed summits of 

 mountains, almost in a similar mamier with the Erica 

 vulgaris of Europe. 



583. RHODODENDRON. L. (Mountain-Lau- 

 rel.) 



Calix 5-parted. Corolla partly funnelform, 

 and somewhat oblique. Stamina dcclinatc. Cap- 

 sule 5 -celled. 



Large or ordinary sized shrubs, with sempei-virent and 

 alternate leaves; flowers subcorymbose lateral and termi- 

 nal; pedicells long, 1 -flowered, bracte;olate at the base. 

 Buds mostly terminal large and imbricated. (Anthers 

 opening by 2 terminal truncate pores.) 



Spp.cies. \. R. maximum. 2. pwictatiim. Fo\wd occa.- 

 sionally almost to Charleston, South Carolina.— S. Elliott, 

 Esq. 3. cata-ivbiense. Leaves distinctly petiolated, oval, 

 whitisli on the under side, often as much as 2 inches 

 broad. 



Of this very ornamental genus there are 3 species m 

 Europe, 1 in the Levant, 3 in Siberia, 1 on the summit of 

 Caucasus, and a very splendid and arborescent species, in- 

 digenous to the mountains of India. 



384. RHODORA. L, 



Calix 5-toothed. Corolla uneqal, of 2 petals, 

 the upper one deeply bifid. Siamina declinate. 

 Cajisule 5 -celled. 



