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Shrubs with showy flowers. Anthers at first held in pocket- 

 like depressions in the corolla. Kalmia, II 

 Shrubs with small, mostly white, urn-shaped flowers. 



Lyonia, III 



A prostrate plant, hardly at all shrubby. Leaves rather large, 



often \\ in. wide, and veiny. Epigsea, IV 



A trailing plant with small (about ^ in. wide), thick, evergreen 



leaves. Arctostaphylos, V 



B 



Shrubs. Flowers epigynons ; corolla sympetalous. Fruit a true berry or 

 resembling one. 



Fruit a berry-like drupe, with 10 nutlets which resemble seeds. 



Gaylussacia, VI 

 Fruit a berry with many small seeds. Vaccinium, VII 



I. RHODODENDRON L. 



Shrubs, often much branched. Leaves alternate, thin, 

 deciduous. Flowers very showy, in terminal umbels, from 

 scaly buds which became well developed the previous season. 

 Calyx very small, 5-parted. Corolla bell-shaped, the tube 

 long and slender, the limb spreading and somewhat one-sided. 

 Stamens 5 or 10, declined ; anthers awnless. Style long and 

 slender, declined ; stigma knobbed. Capsule oblong or linear, 

 5-celled, many-seeded ; seeds very small, scale-like. 



1. R. viscosum Torr. SWAMP HONEYSUCKLK, SWAMP PINK. A 



shrub, 4-6 ft. high ; branches hairy. Leaves obovate, leathery, 

 mucronate at the apex, mostly smooth above, downy on the veins 

 beneath ; petioles very short. Flowers appearing later than the 

 leaves, white, fragrant, 1^-2 in. long; tube long, glandular-viscid. 

 Capsule erect, ^-f in. long, bristly. In swamps.* 



2. R. nudiflorum Torr. WILD HONEYSUCKLE, ELECTION PINK. 

 A branching shrub, 4-6 ft. high ; twigs smooth or with a few coarse 

 hairs. Leaves obovate or oblong, ciliate-serrate, downy, becoming 

 smooth above ; petioles short. Flowers appearing with or before the 

 leaves, pink or white, sometimes yellowish, fragrant, 1-2 in. wide, 

 tube downy but not glandular. Capsule erect, linear-oblong, f-f in. 

 long. Swamps and banks of streams ; flowers extremely variable in 

 size and color.* 



