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Minnesota Plant Life. 



Cook county. From this plant, which is fragrant if crushed, the 

 oil known as Ledum oil is manufactured. 



Menziesias. The Menziesia is a small shrub, three or four 

 feet in height, with obovate deciduous leaves and pretty, nodding 

 umbels of bell-shaped, purplish flowers. The calyx and corolla 

 are generally four-lobed and there are eight stamens, while the 

 fruit is a spherical or ovoid capsule, splitting into four segments. 



Kalmias. The laurel or Kalinia, occurs in cold peat-bogs as 

 far south as Gull lake. It is a little shrub, usuallv not more 



iMG. lt)9. Kalinia flowers. After Atkinson. 



than eighteen inches high, with opposite, linear, evergreen, pale 

 green leaves. The flowers, borne in terminal umbels, are purple 

 and broadly bowl-shaped, with five marginal notches and ten 

 stamens. The shape of the flower will serve to distinguish this 

 plant from the rosemary, which somewhat resembles it. On 

 the under side the leaves are white. 



Moss-plants, The Cassiopc or "moss-plant," is found along 

 the ])alisades north of Duluth, extending, doubtless, to Grand 

 Portage. It looks like a moss, being densely tufted, evergreen, 

 and only from otu" to three inches in height. The leaves are 

 very small and crowded, and the flowers arc borne singly at the 

 ends of leafless pedicels arising from the tips of branches or 



