298 ERiCACK^. (hkatii family.) 



naked buds, and sho\v}' flowers. (Dedicated to Peter Kalm, a pupil of Linnajus 

 •who travelled in this country about the middle of the last century, afterwards 

 Professor at Abe. ) 



§ 1 . Flowers in simple or clustered naked umhel-like cori/mhs : pedicels from the arils 

 of small and fii m fuliaceous persistent bracts: calyx smaller than the pod, per- 

 sistent : leaves f/lubrous. 

 1. K. Iatif61ia, L. (C.vlico-busii. Mountain Laurel. Spoon- 

 wood.) Li aces mostly alternate, brnjld cp-een both sides, ocutc.-Utnceolate or ellipti- 

 cal, tapering to each end, pctioled ; corymbs terminal, many-flowered, claniniy- 

 pubescent; pod depressed, glandular. — liocky hills and damp soil, rather 

 common irom Maine to Ohio and Kentucky, as a shrub 4° -8° high; but in 

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

 like (10° -20° high). May, June. — Flowers profuse, large and very showy, 

 varying froni deep rose-color to nearly white, clammy. 



2. K. angUStifdlia, L. (SuKiiP Laukel. Lamkkill.) Leaves com- 

 monly opposite or in threes, pale or whitish undernntth, liyht yreen above, narrowli/ 

 oblonij, obtuse, petioled ; corymbs lateral (appearing later than the shoots of the 

 season), slightly glandular, many-flowered; pod depressed, nearly smooth; 

 pedicils recurved in fruit. — Hillsides: common. May, June. — Shrub 2° -3° 

 high : the flowers more crimson and two thirds smaller than in the last. 



3. K. glauca, Ait. (Pale Laurel.) Branchlets 2-edyed : leaves opposite, 

 nearly sessile, oblong, white-glaucous beneath, with recolute margins ; corymbs termi- 

 nal, few-lloAvered, smooth ; bracts large ; pod ovoid, smooth. — Var. rosmari- 

 nif6lia has linear and strongly rcvolutc leaves. — Cold peat-bogs and moun- 

 tains, from Pennsylvania northward. May, June. — Straggling, about 1° high. 

 Flowers ^' broad, lilac-purple. 



§ 2. Flowers scattered, solitary in the axils of the leaves of the season : calyx leafy, 

 larger than the pod, nearly equalling the corolla, at length deciduous: leaves {alitr- 

 mite and opposite) and branches bristly-hairy. 



4. K. hirsuta, Walt. Branches terete ; leaves oblong or lanceolate (4" 

 long), becoming glitbrous. — S;mdy pine-barren swamps, E. Virginia and south- 

 ward. May- Sept. — Slirul) 1° high. Corolla rose-color. 



16. MENZIESIA, Smith. Menziesia. 



Calyx very small and flattish, 4-toothed or 4-lobed. Corolla cylindraceous- 

 um-shapcd and soon bell-shaped, obtusely 4-lobed. Stamens 8, included : an- 

 ther-cells opening at the top by an oblique pore. Pod ovoid, woody, 4-celled, 

 4-vaIved, many-seeded. Seeds narrow, with .-v loose coat. — A low shrub ; 

 the straggling branches and the ol)Iong-<ibovate alternate deciduous leaves (like 

 those of Azalea) hair^^ and ciliate with rusty rather chafl'-like bristles. Flowers 

 small, develoj)cd with the leaves, in terminal dusters from scaly buds, greenish- 

 white and jiurplish, nodding. (Named for Archibald Menzics, who in Vancouver's 

 voyage brought the sijccics from the Northwest Coast.) 



1. M. ferruginea, Smith, var. globul^ris. Corolla rather shorter 

 and broader than in the Oregon ])lant. — Alleghany Mountains, S. Pennsyl- 

 vania to Virginia, &c. (Also beyond Lake Superior.) June. 



