HEATH FAMILY 



apex ; when full grown, light green above, often glaucous, more 

 or less hairy, beneath. 



Flowers. — June, July, after the leaves. Perfect, white, some- 

 times touched with pink, borne in terminal umbels developed 

 from cone-like scaly buds which were formed the previous 

 autumn ; all the parts viscid and glandular ; fragrant. 



Calyx. — Minute, five-parted, glandular-bristly. 



Corolla. — White, varying to pale pink, funnel-form, tube 

 slender, very viscid, densely glandular ; border five-lobed, more 

 or less two-lipped, one to two inches broad, shorter than the tube. 



Stamens. — Five, exserted, declined; filaments white, pubes- 

 cent ; anthers orange, awnless, opening by terminal pores. 



Pistil. — Ovary superior, glandular-bristly, five-celled ; style 

 white, slender, pubescent, exserted. 



Fruit. — Capsule, linear-oblong, about half an inch long, 

 glandular-bristly. 



The Clammy White Azalea is found abundantly on 

 the borders of swamps, although it sometimes climbs 

 the mountain side. The books report its color as 

 white, but this is not always the case; for some plants 

 bear pure white flowers while others have pink or 

 pale rose-colored blossoms; sometimes the tube of a 

 white one shows a flush of pink. The blossom is 

 thickly covered with glandular hairs; they arc on 

 pedicel, calyx, corolla, each one white crowned with a 

 minute crimson ball. 



It is late in August before the last blossom has faded 

 on the White Honeysuckle that lives in a shaded nook 

 by a northern swamp. Transferred to the garden the 

 flowering period is shorter, but the bush belongs to 

 the group of summer bloomers. The flowers are de- 

 liciously fragrant and this fragrance seems to reside in 

 ever)' part. 



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