218 ERIC ACE .E. 



Hills and mountains, damp soil, common. June, July. A beautiful shrub 4 to 



5 feet high, with irregular branches. Ltama 2 to 3 inches long, thick, smooth and 



shining. Flown very showy, in spreading corymbs.. pro fuse light or deep rosa- 



rolor. Corolla % to 1 inch ia dianreter, with a «hort tube. Leaves poisonous to 



. ! animals. 



2 K. angustifolia, L. Sheep Laurel 



Branches terete; leaves mostly opposite or in threes, petiolate, narrowly-oblong, 

 obtBM, pale or whitish und Tueath, light-green above; corymbs lateral, bU 

 glandular, many-flowered; bracts linear-lanceolate. 

 Sandy woods and hillsides, common. June, July. A beautiful shrub 2 to 3 feet 

 upright. Leaves acutely and narrowly elliptic, with rounded ends, 1 to 2 

 - Ion.; and }/ A as wide, on short petioles. Flowers crimson and purple, in 

 : .1 corymbs, forming a kind of whorled fascicle around the sum. CbroUa% 

 to V inch in diameter. 



3. K. glauca, Ait, Swamp Laurel. 



ttUeU 2-edgad; leaves opposite, nearly sessile, oblong or lanceolate, white 

 ttfl underneath, with revolute margins; corymbs ferminal, few-flowered, 

 h: bracts large. Var. rosmarini/olia, Pursh. Leaves linear, conspicuously 

 revolute, nearly green beneath. 



Cold peat boxs and mountains, common- June, July. A delicate strajrgiine: 

 . about i foot high, the branches distinctly 2-ed?ed. I 

 og, abeut 1 inch long. Floiuers pale rose-color, S to 10 in each corymb 

 U a y> inch in diameter. Calyx red. Bracts 2, concave, ol •. 



12. LEDUM, Linn. Labrador Tea. 



. the ancient Greek name of the Cistus, transfered by Linnaeus to this. 

 genus. 



Calyx 5-toothed, very small. Corolla 5-petaled, 

 spreading. Stamens 5 to 10, exserted. Anthers opening 

 by 2 terminal pores. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved, many- 

 seeded, splitting from the base upwards. — Low evergreen 

 s, with alternate entire leaves clothed with rusty wool under' 

 math, and handsome white /towers in terminal umbel-like clusters 

 ^from large scaly -br acted buds. 



1. L. LATIFOLIUM, Ait. Broad-leaved Labrador Tea. 



.Leaves elliptical or oblong, revolute on the margin, ferruginous-tomentoic be- 

 D ?ath : stamens 5, sometimes 6 or 7, as long as the corolla ; capsule oblong. 



Cold bogs and damp mountain woods. June. Shrub 2 to 5 feet high, with ir- 

 : u woolly branches. Leaves 1 to 2 inches long, broad-oblong, obtuse. FUw- 

 zrs in terminal corymbs, white. 



2. L. PALUSTRE, L. Narrow-leaved Labrador Tea. 



Leans linear, revolute on the margin, ferruginous-tcmentose beneath: iiamer.s 

 10, longer than the corolla. 



Swamps. June. A shrub smaller than the last and with narrower 

 5o:h Bpecies have been used as substitutes for tea, but the latter is considered the- 



Sub-order 3. PYROLEJE. The Pxrola Family. 

 Oyary free from the calyx. Petals nearly distinct. 



