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nal hoary racemes. Bracts deciduous. (KX^pa, the ancient Greek name of the 

 Alder, which this genus somewhat resembles in foliage.) 



1. O. alaiilolia.} L. Leaves wedge-obovate, sharply serrate, entire towards 

 the hase; prominently straight-veined, smooth, green both sides ; racemes upright, 

 panic-led; bracts shorter than the flowers; filaments smooth. Wet copses, Maine 

 to Virginia near the coast, and southward. Shrub 3 -10 high, covered in 

 July and August with handsome fragrant blossoms. In the South are varieties 

 with the leaves rather scabrous, and pubescent or white-downy beneath. 



2. . acmniiisatsi, Michx. Leaves oval or oblong, pointed, thin, finely 

 serrate (5' -7' long), pale beneath; racemes solitary, drooping; bracts longer than 

 the flowers ; filaments and pods hairy. Woods in the Allcghauies, Virginia 

 and southward. July. A tall shrub or small tree. 



13. PHYLLODOCE, Salisb. PIIYLLODOCE. 



Corolla urn-shaped or bell-shaped, 5-toothed. Stamens 10 : anthers pointless, 

 shorter than the filaments, opening by terminal pores. Pjd 5-celled, scptic.i- 

 dally 5-valved (as are all the succeeding), many-seeded. Low alpine Heath- 

 like evergreens, clothed with scattered linear and obtuse rough-margined leaves. 

 Flowers usually nodding on solitary or umbelled peduncles at the summit of the 

 branches. ("A mythological name.") 



1. P. taxiioliu, Salisb. Corolla oblong-urn-shaped, purplish, smooth; 

 style included. (Mcnziesia carulea, Smith.) Alpine summits of the White 

 Mountains, New Hampshire, and Mount Katahdin, Maine (Youny). July 

 Shrub 4' - G' high, tufted. (Eu.) 



14. K.AL.UIIA, L. AMERICAN LAUREL. 



Calyx 5-partcd. Corolla between wheel-shaped and bell-shaped, 5-lobed, 

 furnished with 10 depressions in which the 10 anthers are severally lodged until 

 they begin to shed their pollen : filaments thread-form. Pod globose, 5-celled, 

 many-seeded. Evergreen mostly smooth shrubs, with alternate or opposite 

 entire coriaceous leaves, and showy flowers. Pedicels bracted. Flower-buds 

 naked. (Dedicated to Peter Kalm, a pupil of Linnseus who travelled in this 

 country about the middle of the last century, afterwards Professor at Abo.) 



1 Flowers in simple or clustered umbel-like corymbs : calyx smaller than the pod, 

 . persistent : leaves glabrous. 



1. K.. lafifolin, L. (CALICO-BUSH. MOUNTAIN LAUREL. SPOON 

 WOOD.) Leaves mostly alternate, bright qreen both sides, ovate-lanceolate or ellipti 

 cal, tap?.ring to each end, pctioled; corymbs terminal, many-flowered, clammy 

 pubescent; pod depressed, glandular. Rocky hills and damp soil, rathei 

 common from Maine to Ohio and Kentucky, as a shrub 4 8 high; but in the 

 mountains from Penn. southward forming dense thickets, and often tree-liko 

 (10 - 20 high). May, June. Flowers profuse, and very showy, light or deep 

 rose-color, clammy. 



2. K. angiistifolm, L. (SHEEP LAUREL. LAMBKILL.) Leaves com- 

 monly opposite or in thS,)Yile or whitish underneath, liyht green above, narrowly 



