Description of Native Shrubs 
too. Dwarf Huckleberry. (Gaylussacia dumosa.) 
LEAF: 1’-1%4', simple, alternate, entire or finely serrate, ob- 
ovate, bristle-tipped, somewhat thick and glossy. FLOWER: m., 
white, red- or purple-tinged (corolla bell-shaped, 5-lobed), with 
leaf-like bract as long as flower-stem, longish-clustered ; June. 
Fruit: black, tasteless. Maine to Virginia, near coast; 1°-5° 
high. 
1o1. Dangleberry. Blue Tangle. (Gaylussacia frondosa.) 
LEAF: 1-2’, simple, alternate, entire, obovate, dull green, 
bloom beneath, FLOWER: as in 100, but corolla more glob- 
ular, with slender bract shorter than flower-stem; May, June. 
FrRuiIT: blue, sweet, with bloom. New England (coast) to 
Kentucky ; 1°-5° high. 
102. Mezereum. Daphne. (D. mezereum.) 
LEAF: 3'-4', simple, alternate, entire, lance-shaped. FLOWER: 
purplish rose, rarely white (no corolla, calyx 4-lobed, spreading, 
8 stamens), few-clustered, before the leaves; April. Introduced, 
and now somewhat spontaneous in Massachusetts and New York. 
103. Hairy Laurel. (Kalmia hirsuta.) 
LeaF: 4’, simple, alternate and opposite, entire, oblong or 
lance-shaped, stiff-hairy (as also branches), at length smooth ; 
leathery, evergreen. FLOWER: m., rose-color (corolla open 
bell-shaped, 5-lobed, ends of stamens sunk in 10 depressions), 
single along branches; May-September. Virginia; 1° high. 
104. Shrubby Althza. Rose of Sharon. (Hibiscus Syriacus.) 
LEAF: 2'-3’, simple, alternate, 3-lobed (middle one long), coarse- 
serrate, base wedge-shaped, apex sharp. FLOWER: 5-petaled, 
rose-colored, large, many stamens 77 a column, September. In- 
troduced, and locally spontaneous; tall. (Pl. VI.) 
105. Hardhack. Steeple-bush. (Spirzea tomentosa.) 
LEAF: 1'-2%', simple, alternate, serrate, ovate to oblong, 
woolly beneath, as also stems (thick and rusty on new shoots). 
FLOWER : p., rose-colored, rarely white, very small, in erect dense 
clusters ; July. Commonest in New England ; 2°-4° high. (Pl. VI.) 
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