PLANTS GROWING IN RICH OR ROCKY SOIL. 161 
one. Fruit: a light blue berry. Zeaves: opposite; oval, pointed; downy 
underneath. A shrub three to ten feet high, the branches streaked with white 
or green; warty. 
Although rather faithful in its love of the woods, where it 
settles itself by the paths and roadways so as to nod to the 
passers by, this pretty shrub is not as discriminating as it 
might be in the matter of soil, To rich or poor, rocky or 
sandy, it appears to be alike indifferent. From its bark is ex- 
tracted cornine, a powerful extract that is used for atonic. It 
is similar to quinine. 
SOURWOOD. SORREL-TREE, (Plate LXXX/Z) 
Oxydéndrum arboreum. 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Fleath. White. Sweet, like honey. Florida to Mississippi April, May. 
and westward. 
Flowers: growing in terminal clusters. Calyx: five-parted; pubescent. 
Corolla: five-toothed; pubescent. Stamens: ten. Pistil: one. Leaves: alter- 
nate; ovate; pointed; sour. A tree fifteen to forty feet high. 
It would be a very queer world indeed if we should ever lose 
our faith in the compensations of Dame Nature; and yet when 
we see the O. arboreum covered with its sprays of exquisite 
bloom, we cannot but wonder about those poor little shrubs 
that have cared so tenderly for their buds and are after all so 
very plain. Every good gift, it seems, has been showered upon 
this lovely tree. It has the sweet fragrance, the delicate 
beauty of the lily-of-the-valley ; and combined as it is in 
masses, it gives all the strong effect of a bolder bloom. 
The only difficulty is that one is tempted to sit down beside 
it and never go away. 
MOUNTAIN LAUREL. CALICO-BUSH. SPOONWOOD. 
| (Plate LX XX III.) 
Kadlmia latzfolia, 
FAMILY COLOUR ODOUR RANGE TIME OF BLOOM 
Heath. White or pink Very fragrant. Inland and May, June. 
deepening into red. middle states. 
Flowers: terminal; axillary; growing in rich umbel-like clusters. Calyx: 
of five sepals; clammy and covered with hairs. Corol/a: wheel-shaped; five- 

