CLASSIFICATION OF ANGIOSPERMS. 



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It probably occurs in the nectar of the flowers of Kalmia and 

 Rhododendron, beinc^ the cause of the poisonous properties of the 

 honey from this source. The leaves of several species of laurel 



Fig. 357. Dwarf Blueberry or Early Sweet Blueberry {Vacciniuyn penusylvanicum). 

 A low shrub growing to a height of 2 to 6 dm. The leaves are lanceolate or oblong, of a 

 bright green color and minutely serrate with bristle-pointed teeth; the flowers are few, in 

 short racemes, the corolla being whitish and cylindrical; the berries are bluish, covered with 

 a bloom, and ripen during July and August. — After Brown. 



(Kalmia) contain considerable quantities of this principle, and 

 are poisonous to cattle. 



The plants of the genus Gaylusaccia are small shrubs distin- 

 guished by having an inferior, berry-like drupe with ten loculi. 

 To this genus belong the huckleberries, as black huckleberry 



