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HEATH FAMILY 



Kalmia polifolia Wangenheim 1788 Swamp Laurel 

 Kalmia glauca Aiton 1789 



Low shrub 1-6 dm. high; twigs with ridges running down from the 

 bases of the leaves; leaves opposite, sessile, ovate, lanceolate or linear, 

 evergreen, leathery, dark green and glossy above, white beneath, margins 

 entire and rolled backwards, midrib prominent beneath, tip blunt pointed, 

 base tapering, 1-3 cm. long, 2-10 mm. wide; flowers in terminal umbel-like 

 clusters, pedicels thread-like, erect, about 15 cm. long, sepals ovate, per- 

 sistent, corolla pink-purple about 1.5 cm. across; capsule globose, about 

 5 mm. in diameter. 



Newfoundland and Labrador to Alaska, southward to New Jersey. 

 Michigan, Colorado, and California. In Minnesota in bogs, most abun- 

 dant in the northeastern part of the state, apparently not reaching beyond 

 the region of coniferous forests. Flowers in June, fruit ripe about 

 August 1. 



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Epigaea L i n 11 e 1753 

 (Gr. e p i upon, g a e a the ground) 

 Prostrate semi-herbaceous undershrubs; leaves evergreen, alternate, 



