WILD FLOWERS OK NM;w YORK 20,3 



sides, sharply pointed at the apex, usually narrowed toward the base, 4 to 

 8 inches long, i to 2| inches wide, drooping in winter. Flowers large, 

 several or many from a scaly conelike bud forming a dense inflorescence or 

 cluster. Pedicels sticky-pubescent; corolla i-J- to 2 inches broad, about i 



inch long, rather deeply five-cleft into oval obtuse lobes, rose color varying 

 to white, with yellowish or orange spots within. Fruit a small capsule 

 about two-thirds of an inch long. 



In low woods and along streams, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario 

 and Ohio to Georgia and Alabama. In New York State rather local in 

 distribution. 



The Lapland Rose Bay (Rhododendron 1 a p p o n i c u m Lin- 

 naeus) is a low, depressed or prostrate shrub less than i foot high, with 

 small purple flowers about three-fourths of an inch broad. It is found 

 only on the highest summits of the Adirondack mountains, and in alpine 

 and subarctic regions of both hemispheres. 



The Rhodora (Rhodora canadensis Linnaeus) is closely 

 allied to the Rhododendrons. It is a small shrub, i to 5 feet high. The 

 flowers appear with or before the leaves, rose-purple in color; the corolla 

 about an inch broad, the lower lip of the corolla divided into two linear- 

 oblong, obtuse segments. In bogs and on wet slopes, Newfoundland to 

 New Jersey, west to Quebec, central New York and Pennsylvania. 



Labrador Tea 



Ledum groeulandiciim Oeder 



Plate 155a 



A small, much-branched shrub, a few inches to 4 feet high with densely 

 tomentose twigs. Leaves oblong, blunt, sessile, thick and evergreen, 

 somewhat fragrant when crushed, i to 2 inches long, one-fourth to two- 

 thirds of an inch wide, strongly revolute on the margins, green above, 

 densely brown-tomentose beneath. Flowers white, one-third to one-half 

 of an inch broad, numerous in terminal clusters, each flower on a pedicel 

 or stalk an inch long or less, which becomes strongly recurved in fruit; 

 calyx small, five-toothed; petals five, separate, obovate; stamens five to 

 seven; fruit capsule oblong, one-fourth of an inch long, five-valved, opening 

 from the base upward. 



