latifolia) which you may know from the rhododendrons 

 by its much smaller lance-ovate leaves, green on both 

 sides. The leaves of the rhododendrons are much 

 longer and more oblong-lance shaped, not unlike the 

 look of the magnolia-leaf. Of course if you meet 

 them in bloom it is very easy to distinguish them, for 

 the Kalmia has umbel-like clusters of small saucer 

 shaped flowers while the rhododendron has a large bell- 

 shaped funnel-form corolla, entirely different. The 

 laurel has a queer way of concealing its stamen-heads or 

 anthers in little pockets in the corolla and when the 

 visiting insect touches these they fly out on elastic 

 filaments and bombard it with pollen. The rhododen- 

 dron has long stamens (five to ten in number), very 

 conspicuously set from the corolla and often curved to 

 the lower side. 



Beyond the clump of rhododendrons is a good bush 

 of elder, and beside the elder, broad, spiny, Mahonia 

 Japonica, of the barberry family. The latter has pin- 

 nate light green leaves and clustered racemes of yel- 

 low flowers in the early spring. The leaves brown in 

 winter. About opposite the elder and Mahonia, on 

 the other side of the Walk is a clump (four bushes) 

 of syringa (Philadelphus grandiflorus) and just beside 

 the last bush of syringa is fly honeysuckle, (Lonicera 

 xylosteum). You know it at once by its soft, very 

 downy (when young) leaves, rather heart shaped and 

 hairy on the edge. It bears yellow flowers in May, 

 with nearly equal lobes and a very unequal sided 

 base, which gives the flower a two-lipped appearance. 

 The flowers develop into beautiful red berries. 



