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| MENZIESIA 
parted, persistent Corolla campanulate, 4—6-lobed, the lobes 
short, recurved, simply imbricated in bud. Stamens 8-12: fil- 
aments filiform: anthers oblong, opening by oblique chinks at 
the top. Capsule subglobose, 4--6-celled. Seeds small, with a 
firm coat. | | 
B. empetriformis Gray Proc. Am. Acad. vii, 377. Densely much 
branched from the base, 1-2 feet high, often forming clumps 1-3 feet in 
diameter: leaves 3-7 lines long, with strongly revolute thickened and 
rough margins: pedicels several, somewhat umbellate, subtended by 
foliaceous and rigid bracts: corolla rose-color, 2-4 lines long, campanulate, 
barely 5-lobed, the lobes much shorter than the tube: stamens included. 
On the highest mountains, northern California to Vancouver Island and 
the Rocky Mountains. 
8 KALMIA L. Gen. n. 545, 
Shrubs with entire evergreen coriaceous leaves and umbellate 
clustered or rarely scattered showy flowers. Calyx 5-parted or 
of 5 sepals, imbricated in the bud. Corolla saucer-shaped, with 
a short narrow tube, 5-lobed and 10-saccate below the limb, which 
is strongly 10-carinate in the bud from the pouches upward, the 
salient keels running to the summit of the lobes and sinuses, the 
limb imbricated in the bud. Stamens 10; the short anthers free 
and on erect filaments in the early bud, in the full grown bud 
received in the pouches of the corolla and the filaments bent over 
as the corolla enlarges and still more when it expands, straight- 
ening elastically and incurving when disengaged, thereby throw- 
ing out the pollen. . Anther-cells opening by a large pore; some- 
times extending intoachink. Stigma depressed. Capsule glob- 
ular, 5-celled, tardily septicidal. Placentz pendulous or porrect 
from the upper part of the small columella. Seeds with a thin 
and mostly close coat. 
K. glauca Ait. Hort. Kew. ii, 64, t. 8. Shreab 6-18 inches high: 
glabrous throughout and mostly glaucous: leaves all opposite, or rarely in 
threes, almost sessile, ovate to linear-oblong, or appearing narrower by the 
usually strong revolution of the margins, dark green above, glaucous white 
beneath, 6-20 lines long: flowers in terminal fascicles, lilac-purple, 6-8 
lines in diameter; bracts large ; sepals ovate, scarious-margined, much im- 
bricated, persistent. In marshes near the coast, Oregon to Alaska and 
across the Continent. 
Var. microphylla Hook. FI. ii, 41. Stems 6-12 inches high: leaves 
oval barely half-inch long: flowers only 2-6 in the clusters, smaller. 
High mountain marshes, California to Brit. Columbia. 
+ + Buds scaly-strobilaceous; the thin or scarious scales cadu- 
cous or deciduous. Calyx often much reduced or obsolete. Corolla 
gamopetalous. Capsule 4- or 5-valved from apex to base. Seeds 
mostly scobiform, having the loose coat produced or appendaged at 
both ends. 
9 MENZIESIA Smith Incon. Ined. iii. t.” 36, 
Shrubs with alternate deciduous leaves and small, mostly dull- 
