682 KALMIA KERIUA 



of the same colour, but with brown anthers. Calyx-lobes in. long, oblong ; 

 flower-stalks smooth, very slender. 



Native of Eastern N. America ; introduced in 1767. Naturally a swamp 

 plant, it likes a cool, moist soil. Under the drier conditions usually given it 

 under cultivation it is a sturdier, more erect shrub than it appears to be in 

 nature, where it is described as straggling. It is very hardy, and one of the 

 brightest of spring -flowering shrubs of its colour. Useful for forcing early 

 into bloom for conservatories. 



K. LATIFOLIA, Linnceus. CALICO BUSH. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 175 ; K. lucida, Hort.} 



A large, robust, evergreen shrub with rather the aspect of a rhododendron 

 when not in flower, a single plant sometimes forming a dense thicket 10 ft. 

 high, and 15 ft. through ; young shoots slightly dowity. Leaves alternate, 

 leathery, smooth, rich glossy green, oval ; 2 to 5 ins. long, f to i ins. wide ; 

 tapering at both ends, often in a cluster at the end of the twig ; stalk J to 



1 in. long. Flowers crowded in several flattish or rounded clusters, ter- 

 minating the growth of the previous year, and collectively 3 or 4 ins. across. 

 Corolla saucer-shaped, f to I in. across, varying in colour from white or pale 

 blush to deep rose, with five triangular, blunt lobes. Stamens white, with 

 brown anthers. Calyx-lobes ovate, ^ in. long, covered with viscous hairs like 

 the flower-stalk, which is slender, and f to ij ins. long. The flowers vary 

 much in depth of shade, size, and density in the truss. 



Native of Eastern N. America ; introduced in 1734, and probably the 

 most beautiful evergreen shrub obtained from that region. There are bushes 

 of the dimensions given above in the south of England, but generally the 

 species has not been planted so extensively as it deserves. Both wild and 

 cultivated, it is the most beautiful of evergreens of the eastern United States. 

 A great breadth of it in the Arnold Arboretum, near Boston, U.S.A., 200 to 

 300 yards long, provides every June one of the public flower feasts of that 

 city. I have also seen it wild on the New Hampshire Hills, where it grows in 

 woods, but is seen at its best on grass and juniper covered hills sprinkled in 

 groups, or as isolated bushes, generally 4 to 6 ft. high. 



Var. MYRTIFOLIA J ager (K. myrtifolia, Andre), is a dwarf bush usually 



2 to 4 ft. high, the largest leaves about 2 ins. long. It is a pretty, neat bush, 

 useful in places where the type is too large. 



Var. POLYPETALA, Nicholson. A form in which the corolla lobes are 

 divided almost to the base. It appeared in the Arnold Arboretum, and is 

 merely a curiosity of no merit. 



K ERR I A JAPONICA, De Candolle. ROSACES 



(Bot. Reg., t. 1873.) 



A deciduous shrub of bushy form, 4 to 6 ft. high, branches and 

 twigs slender, supple, quite smooth and glossy, forming a dense inter- 

 lacing mass. Leaves alternate, ij to 4 ins. long, ovate-lanceolate, 

 parallel-veined, the base rounded, the point long and tapering, smooth 

 above, hairy (especially on the veins) beneath ; the margins doubly 

 toothed. The leaves are much larger on the barren shoots of the year 

 than on the flowering twigs. Flowers yellow, solitary at the end of 

 short leafy twigs springing from the previous year's shoots ; i \ to if ins. 

 across ; petals normally five, obovate ; calyx green, -| in. across, with five 



