Sl6 FLOWERS OF FIELD, HILL, AND SWAMP 



green leaves in whorls of three. Flowers, from their axils, 

 in corymbs of a deep crimson color, the dark anthers nestling 

 in their pockets, having the effect of spots. 



Supposed to be poisonous to young animals and hurtful to 

 cattle and horses. Stags eat the leaves, digging them from under 

 the snow. The Indians make a decoction of kalmia leaves (says 

 Dr. Barton) with which to commit suicide. 



Atlantic States to Georgia. 



107. Pale Laurel 



K. glailca, with its mostly opposite, narrow, long leaves, 

 whitish underneath and turned back on the margins, and its 

 few terminal rosy flowers on long red stalks, is to my mind 

 prettier than Thoreau's lambkill. 



A straggling bush, i foot high, growing in swamps, almost in 

 water, with the cotton-grass and andromeda. 

 Newfoundland, southward to Pennsylvania, and westward. 



108, Clammy Azalea. White Swamp-honeysuckle 



Rhododendron viscosum. — Family, Heath. Color, white. 

 Leaves, alternate, oblong, smooth, except the margins and 

 mid-rib, which are bristly. Time, June and July. 



Calyx, small, 5-parted. Corolla, tubular, with 5 spreading 

 lobes, shorter than the clammy, sticky tube. Stamens, 5, with 

 long, protruding, red filaments. The anthers open by a round, 

 terminal pore. Style,\ML\ry. j^rwzV, a 5-cel led capsule. Flow- 

 ers, large, showy, deliciously fragrant, in clusters, which grow 

 from early spring flower-buds of numerous, overlapping scales. 

 Six to 12 blossoms springing from the same point, all on a 

 short stalk, make a corymb-like cluster. At the base of each 

 flower-stalk there are bract-like scales. The tube is beset with 

 clammy, viscous, brown hairs. 



This plant takes readily to cultivation, and our florists have in 



