HEATH FAMILY 
They remain green and fall during the second summer. Petioles 
short, stout, slightly flattened. 
Flowers.—F lowers appear in May or June from buds which are 
formed in autumn in the axils of the upper Icaves in the form of 
slender cones of downy green scales. ‘These buds usually develop 
two or more lateral branches, the whole forming a compound many- 
flowered corymb four or five inches in diameter and overlapped at 
the flowering time by the leafy branches of the year. Pedicels are 
red or green, hairy or scurfy and furnished with two bracts at base 
and developed from the axils of large bracts. 
Calyx.—Five-parted ; lobes imbricate in bud, narrow, acute, cov- 
ered with glutinous hairs. Disk prominent, ten-lobed. 
Corolla. —Saucer-shaped, rose colored, white, or pink. Tube short 
with ten tiny sacs just below the five-parted limb ; lobes ovate, acute, 
imbricate in bud. The border is marked on the inner surface with 
a waving rosy line and is slightly purple above the sac. The buds 
are ten-ribbed from the sacs to the acute apex of the bud. 
Stamens.--Ten, hypogynous, shorter than the corolla, at first held 
in the sacs of thecorolla; filaments thread-like; anthers oblong, 
adnate, two-celled; cells opening by a short longitudinal pore. 
Pistil.—Ovary superior, five-celled; style thread-like, exserted ; 
stigma capitate; ovules many in each cell. 
L*yvuit—Woody capsule, many sceded, depressed - globular, 
slightly five-lobed, five-celled, five-valved. Crowned with the per- 
sistent style, surrounded at base by the persistent calyx, covered 
with viscid hairs. Seeds oblong. 
The blossoms of the Moun- 
tain Laurel are equipped with 
a most evident device to se- 
cure cross-fertilization, Nat- 
ure has many such arrange- 
ments, but it is not often that 
they are so openly displayed. 
In this case, however, he who 
runs may read, Each flower 
has ten stamens and each co- 
rolla is provided with ten lit- 
tle pockets. When the flower 
opens each stamen is found 
Flower Cluster of Mountain Laurel, Kalmia 
latifolia. 
bent back with its anther 
thrust into one of these tiny cavities. In the centre of the 
flower lies the nectar, and when the bee comes to get it, he 
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