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Leaves, about one inch long and half as wide (those of 

 the flower-spikes ^smaller), oblong ; blunt or slightly 

 pointed ; entire or very slightly toothed ; shiny and 

 dotted above, rusty beneath ; mid-vein prominent, 

 others scarcely noticeable. 



Fruit, depressed, five-celled, many-seeded, with the cov- 

 ering of the seeds in two layers, the outer splitting 

 at length into five parts, the inner into ten. Seeds, 

 flattened, wingless. July. 



Found, in wet places from Newfoundland to Minnesota, 

 and southward to Georgia, often in large beds. 



A nearly evergreen shrub two to four feet high. 



Formerly Cassandra was included in the genus 

 Andromeda. Inasmuch as Linnaeus had given the 

 latter name to the sweet little Lapland flower which he 

 discovered because it reminded him by its surroundings 

 of the story of Andromeda chained in the midst of the 

 waves Don, when he rearranged the species chose the 

 new name "Cassandra," to retain the classic suggestion. 



(6) Genus KALMIA, L. (American Laurel.) 



From the name of Peter Kalm, a pupil of Linnaeus. 



Flowers, showy, in clusters. Corolla, five-lobed, wheel- to 

 bell-shaped, with ten pits for holding back the ten 

 elastic stamens. Calyx, smaller than the ripened 

 seed-case ; persistent after the other parts of the 



