WILD FLOWERS WHITE AND GREENISH 
It has from four to six scale-like petals and from two 
to four early falling white sepals. The short, thick 
pistil is surrounded with usually ten stamens. After 
the aan matures, it becomes erect for the seeds to 
ripen. It is found commonly in dark, rich woods, 
from June to August, and from one end of the country 
to the other, also in Japan. Sometimes the entire plant 
is tinted with pink. 
WHITE AZALEA. SWAMP PINK. SWAMP 
HONEYSUCKLE. CLAMMY AZALEA 
Rhododéndron viscbsum. Heath Family. 
This species closely resembles the Pink Azalea and 
grows from four to eight feet high. It is found only in 
swamps and low, wet places during June and July. 
The smaller flowers are deliciously fragrant, far more 
so than those of the Pink species. The plant is. more 
hairy, and the tube of corolla is covered with very 
sticky, brownish red hairs. It does not become fully 
flowered until its foliage has well expanded. It is not 
quite so leafy as the above plant, but is perhaps more 
branchy. The long, oval leaf becomes wider toward the 
bluntly pointed tip and narrows to a very short stem. 
The upper surface is glossy and nearly smooth. The 
leaves grow in clusters. The beautiful flowers are pure 
white or occasionally faintly tinted with pink, and the 
long, yellow tipped, white stamens are very prominent. 
The calyx is very small and hardly noticeable. The 
Swamp Pink bears the same peculiar juicy pulps 
among its lovely flowers, known as May or Swamp 
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