230 Pink to Red Flowers 



in the existence of Atlantis and Lyonesse, those great sub- 

 merged continents which were perhaps the original home of 

 the Heaths. 



SWAMP LAUREL 



Kalmia polifolia. Heath Family 



Branches glabrous, ascending. Leaves: opposite, nearly sessile, 

 linear-oblong, margins strongly revolnte. Flowers: in simple terminal 

 umbels ; bracts large ; sepals ovate, much imbricated, persistent. 



Growing usually about a foot high, though frequently 

 only a few inches tall, it bears at the ends of its slender 

 branches large clusters of bright rose-red or magenta flow- 

 ers, which have a five-lobed corolla and ten stamens, whose 

 filaments are slightly curved, by reason of the red-brown 

 anthers being caught in the ten pouches which are placed 

 below the limbs, or expanded lobes of the corolla. If you 

 flip the outer, edge of the Swamp Laurel gently with your 

 finger, you will see the little stamens spring upright, sending 

 forth a shower of pollen from their anthers in the process. 

 The heart of the flower is usually pale green. Its ever- 

 green foliage is dark green above and covered with a white 

 bloom beneath. The Swamp Laurel, as its common name 

 implies, grows in marshy ground. 



RED MOUNTAIN HEATHER 



Bryanthus empctrifonnis. Heath Family 



Densely much branched from the base. Leaves: strongly revolute, 

 thickened and rough margins. Flowers: umbellate, subtended by folia- 

 ceous and rigid bracts; corolla deep rose colour, campanulate, five- 

 lobed. 



The Mountain Heathers there are no true Heathers 

 indigenous to this continent are low branching shrubs. 

 Bryanthus empetriformis grows abundantly in the moun- 



