PINK WILD FLOWERS 



greenish throat and spotted with yellowish or orange 

 spots. They have ten equally spreading stamens 

 and one pistil. The buds are cone -like, and the 

 five-parted green calyx is very small. This mag- 

 nificent plant is found in deep, damp woods and 

 along streams in hilly country from Nova Scotia, 

 Ontario, and Ohio to Georgia. 



AMERICAN, OR MOUNTAIN LAUREL. CALICO 



BUSH. CLAMOUN. SPOON-WOOD. IVY=BUSH. 



KALMIA 



Kalmia lati folia. Heath Family. 



This beautiful evergreen shrub is a close rival of 

 the magnificent Rhododendron, and has been adopted 

 as the state flower of Connecticut. It grows usually 

 from three to eight feet high and upward, and often 

 forms dense thickets that defy passage. It has been 

 known to attain a rare height of forty feet with a diame- 

 ter of eighteen inches. The wood is exceedingly hard 

 and very heavy, a cubic foot weighing forty-four pounds. 

 The leafy, angular branches are very stiff and irregular. 

 The handsome, shining, dark green leaves are long- 

 oblong in shape and pointed at either end. They 

 are toothless, strongly ribbed, and smooth. They have 

 very short stems, and are arranged either alternately 

 or in opposite pairs, or terminally in small, clustered 

 groups. The beautiful, fragrant flowers vary from 

 pink to white, and are arranged on short, sticky stems 

 in numerous, large, showy, terminal clusters, each of 

 which is closely surrounded with drooping or hollowed 



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