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nal hoary racemes. Bracts deciduous. (KXrjBpa, the ancieut Greek name of the 

 Alder, which this genus somewhat resembles in foliage.) 



1. C altlifolia, L. leaves wedge-ohovate, sharply seirate, entire towards 

 the base, prominently straight-veined, smooth, green both sides ; racemes upright, 

 panicled; bracts shoiier than the flowers; filaments smooth. — Wet copses, Maine 

 to Virginia near the coast, and southward. — Shrub 3° -10° high, covered in 

 July and August with handsome fragrant blossoms. — In the South are varieties 

 with the leaves rather scabrous, and pubescent or white-downy beneath. 



2. C. acuminata, Michx. Leaves oval or oblong, pointed, thin, finely 

 serrate (5' -7' long), pale beneath; racemes solitary, drooping; bracts longer than 

 the flowers ; filaments and pods hairy. — Woods in the Alleghanies, Virginia 



and southward. July. — A tall shrub or small tree. 



13. PHYLLODOCE, Salisb. Piiyllodoce. 



Corolla urn-shaped or bell-shaped, 5-toothcd. Stamens 10 : anthers pointless, 

 shorter than the filaments, opening by terminal pores. Pod 5-celled, septic i- 

 dally 5-valved (as are all the succeeding), many-seeded. — Low alpine Heath- 

 like evergreens, clothed with scattered linear and obtuse tough-margined leaves. 

 Flowers usually nodding on solitary or umbelled peduncles at the summit of the 

 branches. ("A mythological name.") 



1. P. taxifolia, Salisb. Corolla oblong-urn-shaped, purplish, smooth; 

 style included. (Menziesia caerulea, Smith.) — Alpine summits of the Whito 

 Mountains, New Hampshire, and Mount Katahdin, Maine (Young). Julv 

 Shrub 4' - 6' high, tufted. (Eu.) 



14. KALMIA, L. American* Laurel. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla between wheel-shaped and bell-shaped, 5-lobcd, 

 furnished with 10 depressions in which the 10 anthers are severally lodged until 

 they begin to shed their pollen : filaments thread-form. Pod globose, 5-cclled, 

 many-seeded. — Evergreen mostly smooth shrubs, with alternate or opposite 

 entire coriaceous leaves, and showy flowers. Pedicels braeted. Flower-buds 

 naked. (Dedicated to Peter Kalm, a pupil of Linnajus who travelled in this 

 country about the middle of the last century, afterwards Professor at Abo.) 



( 1. Flowers in simple or clustered umbel-lilce corymbs: calyx smaller than the pod, 



persistent : leaves glabrous. 



1 M.. latifolia, L. (Calico-bush. Mountain Laurel. Si-oon- 

 wood.) Leaves mostly alternate, bright green both sides, ovate-lanceolate or ellipti- 

 cal, tapering to each end, petioled ; corymbs terminal, many-flowered, clammy- 

 pubescent; pod depressed, glandular. — Rocky hills and damp soil, rather 

 common from Maine to Ohio and Kentucky, as a shrub 4° - 8° high ; but in the 

 mountains from Penn. southward forming dense thickets, and often tree-like 

 (10° -20° high). May, June. — Flowers profuse, and very showy, light or deep 

 rose-color, clammy. 



2. Si. ailgUStifolia, L. (Sheep Laurel. Lambkill.) Leaves com- 

 monly opposite or in threes, pale or whitish underneath, light green above, narrowly 



