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the five stamens projecting beyond the flower. Fruit a slender, oblong, 

 erect, hairy capstile, two-thirds to three-fourths of an inch long. 



In sandy or rocky woods and thickets, sometimes (especially in the 

 north) in or around the borders of bogs and swamps, Massachusetts to 

 Illinois, south to Florida and Texas. Flowering in Mav or early Jime. 

 Often called Wild or Swamji Honeysuckle. 



Mountain or Hoary Azalea 



Azalea cancsceiis Michaux 



Figure XXII 



A branching shrtab. 3 to 10 feet high with oval, elliptic or obovate 

 leaves, wider and shorter than those of the Pinkster, conspicuouslv soft- 

 hairy beneath, rarely nearly smooth. Flowers rose color to white, very 

 fragrant, on glandular pedicels, expanding with or earlier than the leaves; 

 corolla 1^ to 2 inches broad, the tube of the corolla densely glandular on 

 the outside but scarcely viscid; stamens projecting somewhat from the 

 flower. 



In woods, New Hampshire and eastern and southern New York south 

 to Florida and Louisiana. Flowering in May. 



The White Azalea (Azalea viscosa Linnaeus) is usually a lower 

 shrub, I to 6 feet high, with small oblanceolate leaves which are smooth 

 or with a few scattered hairs above and on the veins beneath, often 

 whitish beneath; flowers white or rarely pink, very fragrant, appear- 

 ing after the leaves unfold ; the tube of the corolla very sticky and glandular. 

 Frequent in swamps from Maine to Ohio, Arkansas and Florida. In New 

 York rare or infrequent north of the Atlantic coastal region. 



The Flame or Yellow Azalea (Azalea 1 u t e a Linnaeus) with very 

 showy, orange-yellow or red flowers, is found in the lower Hudson valley, 

 and from the Catskill region southward along the mountains. 



Great Laurel; Rose Bay 



Rliodod cud roil max i in 11 m Linnaeus 



FiK'ur, XXIII 



A large shrub, in the south sometimes almost treelike. Leaves ever- 

 green, thick, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, dark green on both 



