PINK WILD FLOWERS 
greenish throat and spotted with yellowish or orange 
spots. They have ten equally spreading stamens 
and one pistil. The buds are cone-like, and the 
five-parted green calyx is very small. This mag- 
nificent plant is found in deep, damp woods and 
along streams in hilly country from Nova Scotia, 
Ontario, and Ohio to Georgia. 
AMERICAN, OR MOUNTAIN LAUREL. CALICO 
BUSH. CLAMOUN. SPOON-WOOD. IVY-BUSH. 
KALMIA 
Ka4lmia latifolia. Heath Family. 
This beautiful evergreen shrub is a close rival of 
the magnificent Rhododendron, and has been adopted 
as the state flower of Connecticut. It grows usually 
from three to eight feet high and upward, and often 
forms dense thickets that defy passage. It has been 
known to attain a rare height of forty feet with a diame- 
ter of eighteen inches. ‘The wood is exceedingly hard 
and very heavy, a cubic foot weighing forty-four pounds. 
The leafy, angular branches are very stiff and irregular. 
‘The handsome, shining, dark green leaves are long- 
oblong in shape and pointed at either end. They- 
are toothless, strongly ribbed, and smooth. They have 
very short stems, and are arranged either alternately 
or in opposite pairs, or terminally in small, clustered 
groups. The beautiful, fragrant flowers vary from 
pink to white, and are arranged on short, sticky stems 
in numerous, large, showy, terminal clusters, each of. 
which is closely surrounded with drooping or hollowed 
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