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TBB KALMIAS. 



Fig. XLI.— Kalmia latifdlia: c, a flower natural size; b, a growing ovary, with Its style. 



tical, acute at each end, supported on short petioles. Its 

 flowers are in large terminal corymbs, viscid-pubescent, 

 white varying to rose-color. 



TJie other species are shrublets 1-3 feet in height. The 



