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ERICACEJE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 
tree-like (1(P -20° high). June. — Flowers profuse, and very showy, 
light or deep rose-color, clammy. — Also called Spoonwood. 
2. K. august!folia, L. (Sheep Laurel. Lambkill.) 
Leaves commonly opposite or in threes , pale or whitish underneath , light 
green above , narrowly oblong , obtuse, petioled', corymbs lateral (ap¬ 
pearing later than the branches of the season), slightly glandular, 
many-flowered. — Hill-sides, common. June, July. Shrub 2° ~ 3° 
high, upright: the flowers crimson, and two thirds smaller than in 
the last. 
3. K. glauca, Ait. (Pale Laurel.) Branchlets 2-edged; 
leaves opposite , nearly sessile , oblong , white-glaucous underneath, wit 
revolute margins; corymbs terminal, few-flowered, smooth, bracts 
large. — Var. rosmarinif6lia has linear strongly revolute leaves. — 
Cold peat-bogs and mountains, northward. July.— Straggling, about 
1° high. Flowers larger than in No. 2, pale lilac. 
14. LOISELEVRIA, Desv. Alpine Azalea. 
Calyx 5-parted, nearly as long as the rather bell-shaped and 
deeply 5-cleft regular corolla. Stamens 5, not declined, included. 
anthers opening lengthwise. Style short. Pod ovoid, 2 - 3-cell- 
ed, many-seeded. — A dwarf and prostrate evergreen shrubby 
plant, much branched and tufted, smooth, with small and coria¬ 
ceous opposite elliptical leaves, on short petioles, with revolute 
margins. Flowers small, white or rose-color, on very short sol¬ 
itary or clustered peduncles. (Dedicated to Loiseleur-Deslong- 
champs , a French botanist.) 
1. L. proctimbens, Desv. (Azalea procumbens, L.) — Al¬ 
pine summits of the White Mountains, New Hampshire, on roc's. 
June. 
15. LEIOPHl^LLIJM, Pers. Sand Myrtle. 
Calyx 5-parted. Corolla of 5 distinct obovate-oblong petals, 
spreading. Stamens 10, exserted : anthers opening lengthwise. 
Pod 2 - 3-ceIled, splitting from the apex downward, many- seeded. 
— A low much-branched evergreen, with the aspect and foliage 
of the preceding genus, but the crowded leaves often alternate, 
scarcely petioled. Flowers small, white, in terminal umbel-like 
clusters. (Name from X« os , smooth , and ej>v\\ov, foliage, in allu¬ 
sion to the smooth and shining leaves.) 
1. Ii. buxifolium, Ell.— Sandy pine barrens of New 
sey. May. — Shrub &- 10' high, with the oval or oblong leaves i ' 
£' long. 
