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Vaccinium ligustrinum. I* Also, Willd. Sp. 2. p. 352. Pers. Syn. 

 Up. 479. Not of Marsh. Mx. Pursh, jYutt? Lindl. nor Eat. 

 Iivonia paniculata. J\*utt. Gen. I. p. 266. 

 Ligustrum, ou Privet-like Andromeda. Vulgb — Pepper-bush. 



Stem 3 to G or 8 feet high, with numerous rather erect branches, and a cinereous 

 exfoliating bark. Leaves 1 to 2 and a half inches lung, and half an inch to near an 

 inch wide, generally inclining to obovate, but often lance-oblong, or oval, acumi- 

 nate, tapering and acute at base, obscurely serrulate, pubescent with short hairs, 

 smoothish above when old, and rather coriaceous (membranaceous, Torr.)\ 

 petioles 1 to 3 lines long. Racemes half an inch to an inch and half long, pubes- 

 cent, often a little compound, arranged paniculately on the terminal branches of 

 the preceding year, mostly naked, sometimes 1 or 2 small leaves near the base of 

 the racemes ; pedicels 1 fourth to 1 third of an inch long, often in fascicles of 2 to 

 5; brack 0, or very small. Calyx colored, pubescent with short white hairs; 

 segments short, ovate, acute. Corolla white, small, roundish-ovoid, slightly urce- 

 olate, smooth within, externally pubescent. Stamens shorter than the corolla > 

 filaments flat, a little dilated at base, ciliate ; anthers terminating in 2 very short 

 awnlcss tubes opening laterally at summit. Ovary depressed-globose, hirsute at 

 summit ; style thick, shorter than the corolla ; stigma simple. Capsule roundish- 

 ovoid, pentangular, obtuse, slightly umhilicate, hairy, rugose-veined, dark brown, 

 the sutures closed by 5 palish tawny convex ribs. Seeds numerous, small, oblong* 

 acute at base, tawny. 

 Hab. Moist woodlands, and thickets: frequent. Fl. June. Fr. September. 



Ob$. Fifteen or sixteen additional species arc enumerated in the U. States. 



208. KALMIA. L. Jfutt. Gen. 382. 



[Named in honor of Peter Kulm ; a Swedish Botanist.] 



Calyx 5-partcd. Corolla somewhat salvcrform ; the limb 5-lobed, 

 producing 10 cornute protuberances beneath, in the cavities of which 

 the anthers arc concealed. Capsule 5-cclled, 5 valved; dissepiments 

 marginal. Seeds numerous. 



Shrubs : leaves scattered, sub-opposite, or ternately verticillate, entire, cori- 

 aceous and sempervirent ; flowers in racemose corymbs* Nat. Ord. 170. Lindl. 

 KniCE.fi. 



1. K. latifolia, L. Leaves scattered, and ternate, oval-lanccoIat<\ 

 acute at each end, green on both sides ; corymbs terminal, viscidly 

 pubescent; flowers large. Beck, Bot. p. 219. Icon, Mx.f. Sybva. 



2. tab. 68. 



Broad-leaved Kalmia, Vulgo — Laurel, Calico-bush. 



Stem 3 or 4 to 8 orlO feet high, with irregular crooked straggling branches. Leaves 



2 to 3 inches long, and about an inch wide, scattered, opposite, or ternate, thick 

 and coriaceous, smooth and shining, paler green beneath, on petioles 1 fourth to 



3 fourths of an inch long. Flotcers in terminal spreading corymbs; pedicels about 

 an inch long, slender, viscid-pubescent, with 3 bracts at base, the two lateral ones 

 short and ovate, the lower one longer and lanceolate. Calyx-segments ovate-ob- 

 long, acute. Corolla pale red, or rose color (sometimes white); tube short; limb 

 spreading (about 3 fourths of an inch In diameter), with an erect 5-cleft margin. 

 Stamens decimate ; the anthers lodged in the lateral cavities of the corolla, but at 

 length liberated, and springing eiastically towards the stigma. Style longer than 



