CLASSIFICATION OF ANGIOSPERMS. 



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

 Rhododendron, being 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 (Vaccinium pennsylvanicum) . 

 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 



