WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK 2O5 



In swamps, bogs and mountain summits, Greenland and Labrador to 

 British Columbia, south to New England, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and 

 Washington. Flowering from June to August. 



Sheep Laurel; Lambkill; Wicky 



Kalmia angustifolia Linnaeus 



Plate i6oa 



A small shrub, 6 to 24 inches high, sometimes taller, simple or with a 

 few nearly erect branches. Leaves opposite or in threes, oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, blunt or pointed at the apex, petioles short, blades dark green 

 above, pale green beneath, persistent or evergreen into the second year, 

 the new leaves light green, i to 2^ inches long, one-fourth to three-fourths 

 of an inch wide. Flowers one-fourth to one-half of an inch broad on slender 

 pedicels, purplish or crimson, numerous in dense, lateral clusters; calyx 

 five-parted, the segments ovate, pointed, glandular-canescent ; corolla 

 saucer-shaped, the limb strongly ten-keeled in bud, the margin five-lobed, 

 with ten pouches close to the margin; stamens ten, shorter than the corolla, 

 the anther sacs opening by large terminal pores, the anthers held in the 

 pouches of the corolla limb as it expands and finally straightening out 

 elastically when the corolla is fully expanded. Fruit capsule globular, 

 indented at the summit, five-lobed, canescent, one-eighth to one-sixth of 

 an inch in diameter, on recurved stalks, the style long and persistent on 

 the capsule in fruit. 



In sandy, moist soil, hillsides and swamps, Newfoundland to Hudson 

 bay, south to Georgia and Michigan. Flowering in June and July. 



Mountain Laurel ; Calico Bush 



Kalmia latifolia Linnaeus 



Plate Ij6a 



A much-branched shrub with stiff branches, 3 to 15 feet high, often 

 forming dense thickets. In the south it sometimes attains the size of a small 

 tree. Leaves smooth, oval or elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, pointed at both 

 ends, on short petioles, green on both sides, usually paler beneath, thick 



