268 DfiCANDRIA. MONOGYJ^IA. 



slenderly and virgately branched; leaves deciduous, scat- 

 tered, sessile, cuneate-oblong- obtuse, with a mucronulate 

 point, under side glandulary pubescent, from 10 to 15 

 lines long- and 5 or 6 wide. Flowers disposed in sessile 

 lateral fastig^iate clusters of 4 to 6 in each, peduncles fili- 

 form more than an inch long-, 1-flowered, bractes very mi- 

 nute. Capsules roundish, as in all the rest of the genus. 

 Hab. v. v. In swamps betwixt Camden and Statesville, 

 South Carolina. 5. hirsuta. Hab. Constantly on the drier 

 margins of open swamps, abundant around Savannah in 

 Georgia, accompanying the Chnmcerops serrulata, &,c. 



A North American genus, considered poisonous and 

 often fatal to cattle; it is also not improbable but that the 

 deleterious honey, recently complained of in Philadelphia, 

 might have been collected by the bees from the flowers 

 of the Calico-bush {Kalmia latifoUa,) which in some places 

 pervades the rocky woods and depressed summits of 

 mountains, almost in a similar maimer with the Enca 

 vulgaris of Europe. 



S83. RHODODENDRON. L. (Mountain-Lau- 

 rel.) 



Calix 5-parte(l. Corolla partly funnelform, 

 and somewhat oblique. Stamina declinate. Cap- 

 suit 5-celled. 



Large or ordinary sized shrubs, with sempervirent and 

 alternate leaves; flowers subcorymbose lateral and termi- 

 nal; pedicells; long, 1-flowered, bracteolate at the base. 

 Buds mostlf 'terminal large and imbricated. (Anthers 

 opening by 2 terminal truncate pores.) 



Species. 1. II. maximujn. 2. pimctatum. Found occa- 

 sionally almost to Charleston, South Carolina. — S. Elliott, 

 Esq. ' o- cataivbieiise. Leaves distinctly petiolated, oval, 

 whitish on the under side, often as much as 2 inches 

 broad./ 



Ofvfhis very ornamental genus there are 3 species in 

 F.urope, 1 in the Levant, 3 in Siberia, 1 on the summit of 

 Caucasus, and a very splendid and arborescent species, in- 

 *digenous to the mountains of India. 



384. RHODORA. L. 



Calix 5-toothed. Corolla uneqal, of 2 petals^ 

 the upper one deeply bifid. Stamina declinate. 

 Capsnk 5- eel led. 



