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14. KALMIA, h. Amkhican Laurel. 



Calyx Spurted. Corolla httwccn wheel shaped and bell-shaped, S-lohed, 

 furnished ^vith 10 depressions in which the 10 anthers are severally lodged; 

 filaments lon^ and thread-form. Capsule j^lobose, 5-eellcd, many -seeded. — 

 Kvergreen mostly smooth shrubs, with alternate or opposite entire eoriaeeous 

 leaves, naked buds, and showy liowers. (Dedicated to J'ctpr Kalm, a pupil of 

 Linnajus, who travelled in this country about the middle of the last ceiiturv, 

 afterwards Professor at Abo.) 



§ 1. Flowers in simple or clustered naked nmliel-like rori/mhs ; pedicels f'roin the 

 axils of small and Jinn foliaceous persistent bracts ; cali/.r smaller than the 

 pod, persistent ; leaves and branches (jlabrous, or nearly so. 



1. K. Iatif61ia, L. (Calico-bush. Mountain Laurel. Spoox-wood.) 

 Le.aces mostly alternate, bright (jreen both sides, ovate-lanceolate or oblong, acute 

 at each end, petioled ; flowers profuse, large and very showy, varying from 

 deep rose-color to nearly white; corymbs terminal, many-flowered, clammy- 

 pubescent; pod depressed, glandular. — Rocky hills and damp soil, Canada 

 and Maine, chiefly along the mountains to W. Fla., west to Ohio, Ky., and 

 Tenn. Usually a shrub 4-8° high, but in the mountains from Penn. south- 

 ward forming dense tliickets and often tree-like (10-30° high). May, June. 



2. K. angUStifblia, L. (Sheep Laukel. Lambkill. Wickv.) Shrub 

 1-3° high; leaves commonly opposite or in threes, pale or whitish underneath, 

 liyht green above, narroicly oblong, obtuse, petioled ; corymbs lateral (appearing 

 later than the shoots of the season), slightly glandular, many-flowered ; pod 

 depressed, nearly smooth; pedicels recurved in fruit. — Hillsides, Newf. to 

 Mich., south to N. Ga. ; common. May, June. The flowers more crimson and 

 two tliirds smaller than in the last. 



3. K. glauca, Ait. (Pale LAr-RKL.) Branrhlets 2-edged ; leaves oppo- 

 site, nearly se.ssile, oblong, ivhite-glaucous beneath, ivith revolnte margins ; corymbs 

 terminal, few-flowered, smooth ; bracts large ; flowers V broad, lilac-jnirple ; 

 pod ovoid, smooth. — Cold peat-bogs and mountains, Newf. to Penn., Minn., 

 and northward. May, June. — Straggling, about 1° high. 



§2. Floicers .'scattered, solitary in the 'axils; calyx leafy, larger than the pod, 

 nearly equ(dHng the corolla, deciduous ; leaves and branches bristly-hairy. 



4. K. hirsuta, Walt. Branches terete ; leaves oblong or lanceolate (4" 

 long), becoming glabrous. — Sandy pine-barren swamps, S. E. Va. to Fla. 

 May -Sept. — Shrub 1° high; corolla rose-color. 



15. MENZIESIA, Smith. 



Calyx very small and flattish, 4-toothcd or 4-lobed. Corolla cylindraceous- 

 urn-shaped and soon bell-sliaped, obtusely 4-lobed. Stamens 8, included ; an- 

 ther-cells opening at the top by an oblique pore. Capsule ovoid, woodv, 

 4-celled, 4-valved, many-seeded. Seeds narrow, with a loose coat. — A lo^T 

 shrub; the straggling l)ranches and the alternate deciduous leaves usually 

 hairy and ciliate with rusty rather chaff-like bristles. Flowers small, devel- 

 oped with the leaves, in terminal clusters from scaly buds, greenish-white and 

 purplish, nodding. (Xamed for Archibald M<n:ies, who in Vancouver's voy- 

 age brought the original species from the Northwest Coast.) 



