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responding prominences on the outside. In these depressions 

 the anthers are found lodged at the lime when the flower expands. 

 The stamens grow from the base of the coroila, and bent out- 

 wardly so as to lodge their anthers in the cells of the corolla. 

 From this confinement they liberate themselves during the peri- 

 od of flowering and strike against the sides of the stigma. The 

 germ is roundish, the style longer than the corolla and declined, 

 the stigma obtuse. Capsule roundish, depressed, five celled and 

 five valved, with numerous small seeds. — "Woods, Gloucester, 

 Princeton, Sec. Not common near Boston. — June. 



Kalmia angustifolia. L. Narrow leaved Laurel. 



Leaves lanceolate ; corymbs lateral. L. 



A low shrub with rose colored flowers, very common in low 

 grounds, and known by the names sheep poison, lambkill, loio 

 laurel, &c. Leaves on short petioles, scattered or in threes, lan- 

 ceolate, obtuse, smooth, evergreen. Flowers in lateral corymbs, 

 proceeding from the axils of the leaves, and forming a sort of 

 whorl round the stem. — June. 



Kalmia glauca. L. Glaucous Kalmia. 



Branches ancipital ; leaves opposite, subsessile, lan- 

 ceolate, revolute at the margin, glaucous underneath ; 

 corymbs terminal, with smooth stalks. 



A small shrub of northern bogs and mountains. The young 

 branches are two edged. Leaves opposite, lanceolate, revolute 

 at the margin, white underneath. Corymbs terminal. Pedun- 

 cles filiform, each issuing from a pair of concave, obtuse, smooth 

 bractes. Segments of the calyx ovate, obtuse, reddish with a 

 white margin. Corolla purple with five lobes and ten depres- 

 sions. Anthers oblong, blackish. Style longer than the sta- 

 mens. — Keene, New Hampshire ; on the White mountains, &c. 

 — June. 



187. PODALYRIA. 



Podalyria tinctoria. Willd. Wild Indigo. 



Glabrous ; stipules setaceous ; leaves subsessile ; 



