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bellate) is appropriate to the habit of Prince's Pine, it 

 being an umbel-bearing evergreen. A second species — C. 

 maciilata (Spotted Chinuiphila, Fig. XL, 7) grows in similar 

 localities, especially southward. It is known by the white 

 variegations of the lanceolate, remotely serrate leaves. Sooner 

 or later the diligent collector is sure to find it and record its 

 analysis. 



XLI. THE KALMIAS, OR AMERICAN LAURELS. 



Description. — In the woods of the Atlantic States from 

 Maine to Georgia and westward to Wisconsin and Kentucky, 

 grow the American Laurels, adorned in the months of May 

 and June in their magnificent bloom. Five species are 

 known to the botanist, flowering simultaneously, and there- 

 fore, possibly, all or several in the box of the collector. Let 

 us first notice their points of agreement, that is, their — 



1. Generic Characters. These are evergreen shrubs, 

 with coriaceous, entire leaves, with raceme-like conjmls 

 (level-topped clusters) of showy white or red flowers, all 

 5-parted, gamopetalous and complete. The 5 sepals cohere 

 only at base, the 5 petals are united quite to the top into a 

 saucer-shaped, 5-lobed corolla larger than the calyx, having 

 10 pits or sacks in which the 10 anthers are lodged. The 

 filaments are long, slender, elastic and recurved. Style 1, 

 slender. Fruit a globular capsule, 5-celled, oo -seeded. 



The Name. — Plants possessing these attributes' consti- 

 tute a genus named Kulmia, in honor of Kalm, a Swedish 

 botanist who traveled in America about 1750. 



2. Specific Characters of the Broad-leaved Kalmia (K. 

 latifdlia), often called the Calico Bush. It is a shrub with 

 crooked stems and branches, 5-15 feet high, with leaves 

 mostly alternate, smooth, briglit green on both sides, ellip- 



