1920] Azalea Atlantica Ashe 99 



canescens but different from the others, may be our species. Azalea 

 glauca, which seems a small form of A. viscosa occurs from New Eng- 

 land to Virginia and blooms from June to July, 



Azalea atlantica is one of the most conspicuous flowers of the damp, 

 flat woods of the low country, often covering acres under old field or 

 long-leaf pine, and scenting the air for a long distance with a frag- 

 rance that is far more pleasant than the much less obvious odor of 

 A. nudiflora. We have the plant from Georgetown, S. C, Hartsville, 

 S. C, and Brunswick County, N. C, and have seen it in New Hanover 

 County, N. C. It is probably distributed over most of the coastal 

 plain of North Carolina and South Carolina. The plants from Bruns- 

 wick County are a slightly different form from the South Carolina 

 plants. The calyx is not hairy, the leaves are smooth on both sides, 

 and the flowers are glandular only. In the Georgetown and Harts- 

 ville plants the calyx lobes are a little shorter and less fused, and are 

 quite hairy on the margin in addition to being glandular; further- 

 more, the flowers are slightly tomentose as well as glandular. 



Plate I was painted by my niece, Dorothy Coker, from Hartsville 

 plants on April 25, 1915. It is 4/7 natural size. The photograph 

 (Plate 7) was made by me in Brunswick County, N. C, about half 

 way between Wilmington and Southport on April 6, 1918. 



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