KAL'MfA GLAU'CA. 



GLAUCOUS KALMIA. 



Class. Order. 



DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA, 



Natural Order. m 



RHOUORACEyE. 



No. 43. 



Kalmia, after Peter Kalm, noticed at No. 33, 

 where a return to the same subject was antici- 

 pated under another variety of Kalrnia latifolia. 

 The Kalmia glauca is now given, there being but 

 little difference in the nature of the several species. 

 In America it is called the spoon tree, in conse- 

 quence of the natives making use of the wood^ 

 which is close and hard, for the purpose of form- 

 ing various articles of household utility. 



Miss Edgeworth, in her tale of " To-morrow," 

 ingeniously alludes to the poisonous properties of 

 the leaves of this splendid plant. It forms one of 

 her auxiliaries in the delineation of the evils of 

 procrastination, which she has given with a force 

 and feeling not to be surpassed. The incident is 

 founded on the communication of Dr. Barton, in 

 the American Transactions ; who states that in 

 Philadelphia, in the winter of 1790, an official pro- 

 clamation was issued, warning all persons from 

 eating pheasants. This, the Doctor observes, 

 was done on a well grounded opinion, that several 

 persons had died from the use of some of these 

 birds which had fed on the leaves of the Kalmia. 



