l8o White to Green and Brown Flowers 



The flower-clusters are very beautiful, each individual 

 blossom consisting of five pure white petals, with a large 

 green ovary set in the centre; the style and numerous long 

 stamens are very conspicuous. Both the flowers and leaves 

 have a strong aromatic fragrance. 



Ledum glandulosiim, or Smooth-leaved Labrador Tea, 

 has also long-shaped, thick, leathery leaves of a brownish- 

 green hue, but they are not woolly underneath, being quite 

 smooth on both sides, though slightly white and resinous 

 below. The flower-clusters closely resemble those of L. 

 grocnlandicnm. 



The name Labrador Tea is derived from the fact that 

 many old settlers, and also campers and lumbermen in the 

 backwoods, formerly used in place of tea a decoction brewed 

 from the aromatic leaves of this shrub. 



MOUNTAIN RHODODENDRON 



Rhododendron alhiHontm. Heath Family 



Leaves: membranaceous, oblong, obscurely undulate. Flowers: from 

 separate one-to-three flowered, lateral, scaly, cone-like buds below the 

 leaves; calyx five-parted, the divisions more or less foliaceous; corolla 

 five-lobed ; filaments bearded at the base, open-campanulate ; stamens 

 ten ; style peltate, five-lobed. 



This is one of the most beautiful flowering shrubs found 

 growing on the highest mountains. 



" Oh, the windings up and down 

 That the dizzy pathway took ! 

 Now along the craggy bed 

 Of a sun-dried mountain brook ; 

 Now along a ledge that led 

 By a chasm's crumbling brink. 

 Dropping deep and sheer away 

 Through the golden Syrian day 

 To the dreamy blur of pink 



