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the five stamens projecting beyond the flower. Fruit a slender, oblong, 

 erect, hairy capsule, two-thirds to three-fourths of an inch long. 



In sandy or rocky woods and thickets, sometimes (especially in the 

 north) in or around the borders of bogs and swamps, Massachusetts to 

 Illinois, south to Florida and Texas. Flowering in May or early June. 

 Often called Wild or Swamp Honeysuckle. 



Mountain or Hoary Azalea 

 Azalea canescens Michaux 



Figure XXII 



A branching shrub, 3 to 10 feet high with oval, elliptic or obovate 

 leaves, wider and shorter than those of the Pinkster, conspicuously soft- 

 hairy beneath, rarely nearly smooth. Flowers rose color to white, very 

 fragrant, on glandular pedicels, expanding with or earlier than the leaves; 

 corolla i| to 2 inches broad, the tube of the corolla densely glandular on 

 the outside but scarcely viscid; stamens projecting somewhat from the 

 flower. 



In woods, New Hampshire and eastern and southern New York south 

 to Florida and Louisiana. Flowering in May. 



The White Azalea (Azalea viscosa Linnaeus) is usually a lower 

 shrub, 1 to 6 feet high, with small oblanceolate leaves which are smooth 

 or with a few scattered hairs above and on the veins beneath, often 

 whitish beneath; flowers white or rarely pink, very fragrant, appear- 

 ing after the leaves unfold ; the tube of the corolla very sticky and glandular. 

 Frequent in swamps from Maine to Ohio, Arkansas and Florida. In New 

 York rare or infrequent north of the Atlantic coastal region. 



The Flame or Yellow Azalea (Azalea lutea Linnaeus) with very 

 showy, orange-yellow or red flowers, is found in the lower Hudson valley, 

 and from the Catskill region southward along the mountains. 



Great Laurel; Rose Bay 



Rhododendron maximum Linnaeus 



Figure XXIII 



A large shrub, in the south sometimes almost treelike. Leaves ever- 

 green, thick, oblong, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, dark green on both 



