180 KEY AND FLORA 
Shrubs with showy flowers. Anthers at first held in pocket- 
like depressions in the corolla. Kalmia, IL 
Shrubs with small, mostly white, urn-shaped flowers. 
Lyonia, II 
A prostrate plant, hardly at all shrubby. Leaves rather large, 
often 1} in. wide, and veiny. Epigea, IV 
A trailing plant with small (about } in. wide), thick, evergreen 
leaves. Arctostaphylos, V 
B 
Shrubs. Flowers epigynous ; corolla sympetalous. Fruit a true berry or 
resembling one. 
Fruit a berry-like drupe, with 10 nutlets which resemble seeds. 
Gaylussacia, VI 
Fruit a berry with many small seeds. Vaccinium, VII 
I. RHODODENDRON L. 
Shrubs, often much branched. Leaves alternate, thin, 
deciduous. Flowers very showy, in terminal umbels, from 
scaly buds which became well developed the previous season, 
Calyx very small, 5-parted. Corolla bell-shaped, the tube 
long and slender, the limb spreading and somewhat one-sided. 
Stamens 5 or 10, declined; anthers awnless. Style long and 
slender, declined; stigma knobbed. Capsule oblong or linear, 
5-celled, many-seeded; seeds very small, scale-like. 
1. R. viscosum Torr. SwAmp Honrysuckie, Swamr Pink, A 
shrub, 4-6 ft. high; branches hairy. Leaves obovate, leathery, 
mucronate at the apex, mostly smooth above, downy on the veins 
beneath; petioles very short. Flowers appearing later than the 
leaves, white, fragrant, 1J-2 in. long; tube long, glandular-viseid. 
Capswe erect, 1-3 in. long, bristly. In swamps.* 
2. R. nudiflorum Torr. Winip Honrysuckir, Enecrion PINK. 
A brauching shrub, 4-6 ft. high; twigs smooth or with a few coarse 
hairs. Leaves obovate or oblong, ciliate-serrate, downy, becoming 
smooth above; petioles short. Flowers appearing with or before the 
leaves, pink or white, sometimes yellowish, fragrant, 1-2 in. wide, 
tube downy but not glandular. Capsule erect, linear-oblong, 2—" in. 
Jong. Swamps and banks of streams; flowers extremely variable in 
size and color.* 
