214 WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
severally held until they begin to shed their pollen. Capsule depressed- 
globose, 5-celled ; seeds numerous, minute. Evergreen shrubs ; leaves 
entire ; flowers in umbel-like corymbs. 
1. K. latifo’lia, L. Leaves oy alternate, oval-lanceolate, bright 
green on both sides ; corymbs terminal. 
Broap-teavep Katmra. Mountain Laurel. Calico Bush. Spoon- 
wood. 
Stem 3 — -10 feet high, with irregular crooked straggling branches. Leaves sometimes in 
3’s, d about ap inch wide ; petioles 14 — 34 of an inch in length. Flowers 
allie? tii pale red rear ie haa lg in’ spreading corymbs ; pedicels about an inch 
long, viscid open nt, with 3 bracts a! 
Roc a ‘hills : May-Jun 
Obs, This fine evergreen is common from Maine to the mountains of 
Southern States, being ee when in flower, and beautiful on 
account of its dark n foliage at all times. The wood is very hard, 
especially > of ie root, and is used as a substitute for pan by the 
rs and carvers oer 
reputation of bein a aia to cattle. but es - gay Bs known of 
the effects of the plant ule gn animal sys said to be easy of 
aghinsaint in moist soil, but the experiments which have fallen under 
observation have not been very successful. 
X. anigustifo ‘o'lia, L. Leaves opposite and ternate, narrowly oblong, 
43 or slightly ret beneath ; corymbs lateral. 
Narrow-LeaveD Laurer. Dwarf Laurel. Sheep Laurel. Lambkill. 
Stem about 2 feet high, slender, somewhat branching. Leaves 1-2 inches long, and 
about half an inch wide ; ‘petioles -Wan — in length. Flowers small, sede crim- 
son, in lateral te ap in o axils ‘of the ternate leaves and thus ig. 5 rg rticillate ; 
pedicels filiform, ~ 78 © of an inch in length, with, un¢qual bracts at bas 
Hill-sides : co: omm J oe 
Obs. The leaves Mo a shrub are supposed to be poisonous to 
and lam nrg denne a ts popular names. "The Azaleas, of whi 
there ve species, and which include some of our 
beautiful ‘ote Fibiate belong here, but our space does not allow us to no- 
tice them. The Azalea n nudifio’ra, L., or wild Honeysuckle, has often 
a singular transformation of its flowers, the parts of the flower becoming 
enlarged and fles 
shy and seeneralls consolidated into a shapeless mass. 
succulent excrese much song after by boys who call 
_ them “swamp apples ” pig eae ; they at times are men | 
what sweetish, but to bog but. boys, tice poor Mann : som 
maxim ose Bay or great laure i 
um, belongs also 
section ; it isa noble erergren shrub, ve rather dificult of 5 cultivation. 
unless sheltered from the powerful heat of our midsumme 
