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MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS 



Kalmia polifolia, Wang. Swamp laurel 



A low shrub with 2-edged branchlets, opposite nearly sessile leaves; oblong 

 and white-glaucus beneath ; margins revolute ; flowers in terminal corymbs, few 

 flowered; flowers ^ inch broad, purple; capsule depressed, glabrous, smooth. 



Distribution. In bogs, Newfoundland to Alaska, Connecticut to Pennsyl- 

 vania, Michigan, Rocky Mountains, and California. 



Poisonous properties. Both of these species are regarded as poisonous, the 

 K. angustifolia especially so. The symptoms of poisoning are very much the 

 same as those produced by the preceding species. 



Fig. 383. Branch ivy (Leucothoe Cates- 

 baei): a, flowering branch; b, fruiting capsules. 

 (Chesnut, U. S. Dept. Agr.) 



Leucothoe, D. Don 



Shrubs with alternate petioled leaves, and small, usually white, flowers in 

 axillary or terminal spiked, racemes; sepals 5, distinct; corolla cylindrical, 5- 

 toothed; stamens 10, included; anthers naked, or the cells with 1 or 2 erect 

 awns at the apex, opening by a pore; capsule depressed, more or less 5-lobed, 

 5-celled, 5-valved; seeds mostly pendulous, minute. About 35 species, natives 

 of the Western Continent ; a few in Asia. 



