126 OTHEK AIIEEICAN PLANTS. 



Kalmia ANGUSTIFOLIA 



Is by no Bieans a popular plant, from the foliage 

 being poisonous to sheep ; whence the common name 

 of " Lanibkill." It is, however, very pretty, and 

 improves greatly on acquaintance. The foliage is 

 narrow, dull green, glaucous below, and not orna- 

 mental. The flowers vary from pale pink to the 

 deepest red. 



By a little search in the fields in the season of 

 bloom, many varieties, differing greatly in color, 

 foliage, and growth, may be obtained. The plant is 

 too pretty to be neglected, and were it less common 

 would be highly esteemed. 



Planted on the border of a Rhododendron-bed, it 

 increases rapidly by suckers, and never fails to 

 flower freely. 



Figured in Bot. Mag. 10, t. 331 ; and in Lodd. 

 Cab. pi. 502. 



Kalmia glauca. 



A charmingly pretty species, and the earliest to 

 bloom, the flowers expanding in early May. The 

 foliage is narrow, evergreen, whitish below ; the 

 flowers large, rose-colored, in terminal corymbs. 



While in its native bogs, the plant is a low, strag- 

 gling shrub. 



We receive it from England in neat, pretty, sym- 

 metrical plants, which always come out of the cases 

 in full bloom. It is not so easy of culture as the 

 other species, and is very liable to die off. 



