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lar) ; bell or funnel-form. Stamens, twice as many 

 as the petals, or of the same number (or in R. nudi- 

 fblium, five to seven). Stamens and style more or 

 less exserted and declined, except in R. maximum. 

 Anther -cells, opening by a round pore at the end. 

 Seed-case, free from the calyx. 



Leaves, chiefly alternate and entire. 



Fruit, five-celled, many-seeded. Seeds, scale-like. A 

 capsule. 



Fig. 82. Clammy Azalea. White Swamp Honeysuckle. 

 Swamp Pink. R. viscbsum ( L.), Torr. 



Flowers, appearing after the leaves, white or rose-color, 

 very fragrant, very sticky, in clusters of six to twelve 

 blossoms. Corolla, downy, funnel-form ; tube about 

 one inch long, nearly twice as long as the lobes. 

 Calyx, minute. Stamens, five, slightly exserted from 

 the tube. Anthers, nearly twice as long as in the 

 Purple Azalea (R. nudiflbrum). Style, much longer 

 than the stamens. June, July. 



Leaves, one to two inches long, alternate or in groups of 

 five to six at the ends of the branchlets, reverse egg- 

 shape to lance-shape, smooth, except at the delicately 

 bristle-fringed margins and mid-vein. Leaf-stem and 

 branchlets, bristly. Apex, often tipped with a brown, 

 hard point. 



Fruit, as above. 



Found, in damp woods and swamps from Canada to 

 Florida and Arkansas, mostly near the coast. 



