HEATH FAMILY 463 
Corolla regular. 
Saucer-shaped, holding anthers in 10 sacs . . Kalmia 
Ovoid. 
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Leaves oblong. 
Flowers in long, narrow, lateral clusters, not 
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Tree, 15 to 60 ft. high 
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1. LEDUM, L. 
Our species a small evergreen shrub, with alternate leaves which are 
smooth and green above and brown-woolly beneath and are rolled at the 
borders. Flowers white, in broad umbel-like clusters. Calyx minute; 
corolla of 5 spreading petals; stamens generally 10; capsule globose. 
L. groenlandicum, Oeder. (Fig. 6, pl. 114.) Lasrapor Tea. Shrub, 
4 to 24 ft. high; the younger twigs downy. Leaves elliptic, green above 
and woolly beneath, borders recurved, 4 to 14 in. long. Flowers 3} in. 
broad, about a dozen in a cluster. In bogs and swamps in our area and 
northward. May-July. 
2. DENDRIUM, Desvaux 
A very small shrub, with leathery evergreen alternate leaves and many 
small white flowers in terminal clusters. Calyx 5-parted; petals 5; sta- 
mens 10, longer than the petals. capsule egg-shaped. 
D. buxifolium, Desvaux. (Fig. 9, pl. 117.) Sanp Myrtre.  (Leio- 
phyllum buxifolium, Pers.) Shrub, 4 to 14 ft. high. Leaves crowded along 
the stem, oval or oblong, obtuse at apex, shining above, black dotted be- 
neath. Flowers several in broad terminal clusters. Dry sandy places, 
New Jersey and southward. April-June. 
3. CHAMAECISTUS, Oeder. (Loiseluria, Desv.) 
A small evergreen plant, with straggling branches, growing in tufts; 
leaves opposite, leathery, very narrowly elliptic or linear, the margins 
turned back. Flowers white, small, erect, a few in a terminal cluster. 
Calyx 5-parted, corolla 5-lobed; capsule egg-shaped, 2-celled. 
C. procumbens, L. (Fig. 11, pl. 117.) Awprne Azatta. Found on 
summits of White Mountains. July-Aug. 
4. PHYLLODOCE, Salisb. 
Low, heath-like shrubby plant, with evergreen leaves crowded about 
