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branches slender; common on dry sandy soils in most of 
the Eastern States. 
The Laurels are supposed in many sections to be very 
poisonous to sheep, and wonderful stories are in circulation 
as to its deleterious effects on various kinds of animals. 
Probably the only truth there is in these tales is the fact, 
that sheep when not supplied with sufficient food will eat 
more of the laurel leaves than their stomachs will digest, 
and they become rolled up in a hard ball, and by remain- 
ing in the stomach cause irritation, and then inflamma- 
tion, which produces death. In such instances the Laurels, 
as well as other thick-leaved evergreens, become danger- 
ous, just the same as an old boot or a lump of hair or other 
similar substances which sheep and cattle will oceasion- 
ally eat. 
Katia etauca (Pale Laurel).—Leaves oblong, white, 
glaucous beneath, with somewhat revolute margins; flow- 
ers lilac purple, terminal, few ; a small shrub, seldom more 
than one foot high; grows in cold peat soils in Pennsylva- 
nia and New York. 
Katmia uirsuta (Rough Laurel). — Leaves oblong, 
three to four inches long, smooth; flowers rose color, pro- 
duced singly in the axils of the leaves on the new growth 
‘of the season; native of the swamps of the South. 
Lepum Latirorium (Labrador Tea).—Leaves elliptical, 
oblong, entire, alternate, rusty woolly underneath, with 
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ievolute margins; flowers white, quite handsome, in ter- 
ninal clusters; small shrubs in cold peat bogs; blooms in 
June; New England and most of the Northern States, 
also in Canada. Another species, L. palustre, has long, 
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