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and evergreen, 2 to 5 inches long, one-half to \\ inches wide. Flowers 

 three-fourths to i inch broad, pink or white, numerous and showy in ter- 

 minal clusters; pedicels of the flowers densely sticky-glandular and two- 

 bracteolate at the base, slender, one-half to i^ inches long; both the calyx 

 and the corolla sticky-glandular without, the corolla similar in structure 

 to that of Kalmia angustifolia, which is typical of all members of 

 the genus Kalmia. Fruit capsule globular and indented at the top, five- 

 lobed, one- sixth to one-fourth of an inch thick. 



In rocky and sandy woods, thickets and recently cleared land, New 

 Brunswick to Ontario and Indiana, south to Florida, Kentucky and 

 Louisiana. Flowering in May and June. Known also as Spoonwood, 

 Broad-leaved Ivy and Clamoun. 



Pale or Swamp Laurel 



Kalmia polifolia Wangenheim 



Plate ts6b 



A small shrub, 6 inches to 2\ feet high with erect or ascending branches 

 and two-edged twigs. Leaves opposite, rarely in threes, nearly sessile, 

 oblong or linear-oblong, blunt at the apex, green above, glaucous-white 

 below, one-half to 2 inches long, one-sixth to one-half of an inch broad, 

 with revolute margins. Flowers few or several, purple, one-half to three- 

 fourths of an inch broad, in simple, terminal umbels on slender stalks 

 one-half to i^ inches long which are erect in fruit. Segments of the 

 calyx with rough margins. Corolla structure like that of Kalmia 

 angustifolia. Fruit capsules about one-fourth of an inch long or less. 



In bogs from Newfoundland to Hudson bay and Alaska, south to New 

 England, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Montana and California. Flowering 



in June and July. 



Leatherleaf ; Dwarf Cassandra 



Chamaedaphne calyculata (Linnaeus) Moench 



Plate I5?a 



A small, erect shrub with numerous branches, i to 4 feet high. Leaves 

 alternate, leathery but rather thin, evergreen, very short petioled, blunt 



