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Measurements of one Ka/mia tree were taken near Green Cove 
at the base of White Top Mt., with the following results: 
Circumference of trunk 6 in. from the ground, , . . . . . ft. 20: 
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Height twenty-five feet, 
An apparently distinct form was collected on Peak Mt. It is 
smaller throughout, the leaves narrower and more acuminate at 
both ends. The same was found in 1891 on Blowing Rock Mt., 
North Carolinia, by Small and Heller, at an altitude of 4,200 ft. 
We have not seen this form in flower. It may be interesting to 
record that the stumps and roots of Kalmia furnish quite a liveli- 
hood to the inhabitants of the mountains. They are taken from 
the soil and shipped in great quantities to the North, where they 
are made into “genuine Briarwood pipes” for the market. Laurel, 
the common name of this species, is not known in the South, 
where the universal name for it is * Ivy." 
Azalea lutea, L.* (Azalea calendulacea, Michx.) Staley Creek, 
near Marion, alt. 2,400 ft. Slopes of White Top Mt., alt. 
2,600-3,500 ft. Fox Creek on Pine Mt., alt. 3,000-3,500 ft. 
Summit White Rock Mt., alt. 4,400 ft. 
On White Top and Pine Mt. A. calendulacea in several in- 
stances reached the height of over 5 meters. On White Rock Mt. 
many acres were covered with it, not more than 1 m. in height, 
the flowers very large and of every possible shade of yellow and 
flame color. 
zalea canescens, Michx. Kate’s Mt., White Sulphur Springs, 
W. Va., alt. 3,300 ft. Chatham Hill Gap, Walker Mt, alt. 
2,700—3,500 ft. 
In both localities the specimens of this species collected, seemed 
to hold their characters very well, the flowers rose color, fragrant, 
the corollas very glandular, and the under surface of the leaves 
more or less canescent with stiff white hairs. On Walker Mt. 
they were growing along the edge of a stream and in a swamp, 
and were 1-2 meters in height. 
*This must be the Azala /utea of Linnæus, Sp. Pl. Ed. t, in part. 
