MISCELLANEOUS DICOTYLEDONOUS PLANTS 



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and sheep, hence the common names, but direct evidence is lacking for 

 this plant which we have for the broad-leaved species. 



Calico-bush, Mountain-laurel (Kalmia latifolia). This is a shrub 

 growing 4 to 8 feet tall and with broad, evergreen, dark-green, lustrous 

 leaves and a large umbel of white, pink, or rose-pink flowers with ten 



PIG. 37. Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia). (After The Starrs and Harrison Co. 

 (Painesville, Ohio) Catalogue, 1913.) 



explosive stamens placed in pockets of the cup-shaped corolla (Fig. 37). 

 The fruit is a persistent small capsule (Fig. 38). 



Many cattle and sheep are poisoned annually by eating the leaves and 

 tops of this shrub. On Nov. 13, 1918, the writer was taken by Dr. F. 

 Boerner to see a herd of heifers on the Percival Roberts farm at Narberth, 



