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ERICACEJE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 
ed, 5-valved, many-seeded. Seeds scale-like. — Upright shrubs, 
with alternate and obovate or oblong deciduous leaves, which are 
entire, ciliate, and mucronate with a glandular point. Flowers 
large and showy, in umbelled clusters from large scaly-imbricated 
terminal buds. (Name from dfaXcos, arid, most inappropriate as 
applied to our species, which grow in swamps.) 
* Floicers appearing after the leaves. 
1. A. arborescens, Pursh. (Smooth Azalea.) Branchlets 
smooth; leaves obovate, obtuse, very smooth both sides , shining above, 
glaucous beneath, the margins bristly-ciliate ; calyx-lobes long and con¬ 
spicuous; corolla slightly clammy ; stamens and style very much ex- 
serted. — Mountains of Penn, and southward. June. — Shrub 3 
10° high, with thickish leaves, and very fragrant rose-colored blos¬ 
soms larger than in No. 3. 
2 . A. viscosa, L. (Clammy Azalea or White Honeysuc¬ 
kle.) Branchlets bristly , as well as the margins and midrib ot t ie 
oblong-obovate otherwise smooth leaves; calyx-lobes minute; coro 
clammy with glandular hairs, the tube much longer than the lobes; sta 
mens moderately, the style conspicuously, exserted. — Var. glaLca 
has the leaves paler and often white-glaucous underneath, or abo%e 
also, sometimes rough-hairy. — Swamps, Northern and Eastern States, 
near the coast, common. June, July. — Shrub 4°-10° high, wit 
handsome fragrant flowers in large clusters, white, or tinged wit l 
rose-color. 
* * Flowers appearing before or with the leaves. 
3. A. nudiflora, L. (Purple Azalea. Pinxter-flower.) 
Branchlets rather hairy; leaves obovate or oblong, downy u n er 
neath; calyx very short; tube of the corolla scarcely longer than tie. 
ample lobes , slightly glandular; stamens and style much exserte • 
Swamps, common, especially in the interior. April, May. r0 
2P-6 0 high, with very showy flowers varying from flesh-color to P in 
and purple. There are numberless varieties, some of them exhibiting 
10 or more stamens. 
4. A. ealendulacea, Michx. (Flame-colored Azalea-) 
Branchlets and obovate or oblong leaves hairy; calyx-lobes ohlon ^ 
conspicuous ; tube of the corolla scarcely as long as the lobes , hairy , 
clammy; stamens and style much exserted. — Woods, mountains 
Penn, and southward. May. —Shrub 3P-1(P high, covered J 
when the leaves appear with a profusion of large and showy } e 
or orange blossoms, usually turning to flame-color. 
A. hispid a, Pursh., from the mountains of New York and Pen j 
has not been identified, unless it be a variety of A. viscosa. ^ 
A. nitida, Pursh., is in the same condition : the cultivated p 
resembles A. viscosa, but is very low and narrow-leaved. 
