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Tlao varieties stricta, svperba, and rosmarinifolia, 

 only differ from the species in size and color of 

 flower, or in foliage. 



Figured in Bot. Mag. 5, t. 177; Lodd. Can. 

 t. 1508. 



Kalmia hirsuta. 



This species is a native of pine barren swamps of 

 the Southern States. The foliage is small ; the flow- 

 ers large, rose-colored, solitary, produced in the axils 

 of the leaves. This plant would probably prove of 

 difficult cultivation and be tender in the Northern 

 States. 



Figured in Bot.- Mag. 4, t. 138 ; Lodd. Cab. 

 t. 1058. 



Kalmia cuneata. 



This species, which is a native of the mountains 

 of Carolina, we have never seen. It is said to be 

 deciduous ; and to bear white flowers, red at the 

 bottom, in few-flowered, lateral corymbs. 



The Ledum. 



This plant, familiarly known as " Labrador Tea," 

 is i)y no means uncommon in low mountain bogs. 

 The foliage is rusty, pleasantly fragrant; the flowers 

 in large, terminal clusters, white and very showy. 

 All the species thrive on the borders of Ehododen- 

 dron-beds, for which place their low growth adapts 



