JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. XIV April, 1913 No. 160 
WILD PLANTS NEEDING PROTECTION* 
6. ‘“Witp AzaLza” (Azalea nudiflora L.) 
WITH PLATE CXIV 
About the end of May, when the snow-balls are in bloom and 
the dandelions have gone to seed, with their exquisite balls of 
then the wild azaleas brighten the gloom of the woodlands with 
their ara colors. In the region about New York City, it is 
wn wild honeysuckle’ from the shape of its flowers, 
which a long tube filled with nectar. The flowers vary in 
color from pale pink to deep rose-color and grow about ten in 
a cluster at the summits of long naked branches, which usually 
arise in clusters from the stem. These shrubs sometimes attain 
a height of from two to six feet, and once were abundant in 
open woodlands in Greater New York, particularly in the Bronx 
and on Staten Island, though on account of their showy color 
and fragrance they are often ruthlessly broken. The flowers are 
large with es exserted stamens and with the tube, the pistil 
the filaments darker-colored. The 5-parted limb of 
corolla is ene ed, the two upper divisions spreading, 
the lowest being the broadest and overlapping the two narrower 
lateral ones. The pedicels and tube are quite hairy as well as 
the short green calyx. The ovary also is hairy and the style is 
over two inches long, ee pcan and ee in a disc- 
* Illustrated by tl ion of Native Plant 
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