
HEATH FAMILY. Ericaceae. 
There are several kinds of Kalmia, almost all of eastern 
North America, the flowers alike in form. 
A very pretty little evergreen shrub, 
Swamp Laurel from a few inches to over a foot high, with 
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philla (K. glossy, leathery, rich-green leaves, whitish 
glauca var. on the under side, with the margins rolled 
microphylla) back. The flowers are single or in clusters, 
— each about half an inch across, with five 
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Northwest, etc. Sepals and a bright purplish-pink, saucer- 
shaped corolla, with five lobes, which is 
prettily symmetrical and intricate in form. There are ten 
little pouches below the border and in these the tips of the 
ten anthers are caught, so that the filaments curve over 
from the center, and at the touch of a visiting insect they 
spring out of the pouches and dust the visitor’s back with 
pollen, which is carried to another flower. The little, 
pointed buds, angled and deep in color, are also pretty and 
the capsule is roundish, with many small seeds. This 
grows in northern swamps, across the continent. 
There are several kinds of Menziesia, some Japanese; 
branching shrubs, with alternate, deciduous, toothless 
leaves, and small, nodding flowers, in clusters, developing 
from scaly buds, their parts almost always in fours; stamens 
eight, not protruding; capsule more or less egg-shaped. 
A rather attractive little bush, from 
rosa Huckle- two to six feet high, with light brown bark, 
pease hairy twigs and slightly hairy leaves, with 
urcelolaria (M. hairy margins. The flowers are less than 
ferruginea) half an inch long, witha hairy calyx and 
Yellowish, reddish 411] cream-colored corolla, tinged with 
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Hacricicat dull-pink or red, and hang prettily in a 
circle, on drooping pedicels, which become 
erect as the capsules ripen. When crushed, the stems 
and foliage have a strong skunk-like smell. 
There are only a few kinds of Ledum, all much alike. 
A loosely-branching, evergreen shrub, 
Woolly Labrador f5™m one to four feet high. The bark is 
reeae Gre. reddish and the twigs are covered with 
léndicum reddish wool, the color of iron rust, and 
White the leathery, dark green leaves, which are 
Spring, summer -jternate, with rolled-back margins, are 
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also covered with reddish wool on the 
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