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with pink flowers, which appear before the leaves, 

 and the corolla of which is bilabiate, the upper 

 lip being the broadest, and cut into two or three 

 teeth, and the lower only once cut. There are 

 ten stamens, and the capsule is five-celled and 

 five-valved. The leaves are deciduous, and slightly 

 pubescent beneath ; and the flowers are pro- 

 duced in small terminal clusters. This plant, 

 as well as all the Azaleas above described, are 

 now included by some botanists in the genus 

 Rhododendron. 



The genus Kalmia also belongs to this tribe. 

 The flowers of this well known shrub are very 

 curiously constructed. The corolla is salver- 

 shaped, that is, nearly flat, and on the under side 

 of the limb are ten protuberances, producing as 

 many hollows on the upper side, in which lie 

 half-buried the ten stamens. This singular 

 construction gives the corolla that wrinkled 

 appearance which has procured for the plant its 

 American name of Calico flower ; while, from 

 the shape of the leaves, it is also frequently called 

 the Mountain laurel; it is also called Sheep 

 laurel from its being considered poisonous to 

 those animals when they feed on it. There 

 are several species, which differ from each other 

 principally in the shape of their leaves and the 

 size of their flowers. 



Mcnziesia is a genus containing only three 



