156 THE SHRUBS OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



of the Upper. It is 3 to 4 feet high, somewhat hairy. 

 The leaves are about 2 inches long, sharp pointed, 

 finely toothed, paler underside. The flowers are 

 small, almost globular, scurfy, in small clusters that 

 are leafy. 



5. (A. floribunda, Pursh.) — Rather rare, and be- 

 longing to the mountains, 4 to 8 feet high, the 

 younger branches reddish and covered with scattered 

 stiff hairs and glandular dots. The leaves are 1 to 

 li inch long, evergreen and rigid, rounded at base, 

 sharp at top, minutely scalloped, the youngest with 

 short hairs on the margin ; flowers in crowded leafy 

 clusters. 



1. Dog Laurel. (Leucothce Catesbsei, Gray.) — 

 Found only in the mountains, where it is also called 

 Hemlock, growing on the cool margins of streams. 

 It is 2 to 4 feet high, the leaves evergreen, 3 to 5 

 inches long and 1 inch broad, with a long tapering 

 point, prickly-toothed on the edges. Clusters of flow- 

 ers in the forks of the leaves. A very pretty shrub. 



2. (L. axillaris, Don.) — On the borders of streams 

 and wet places in the Lower District, and very much 

 like No. 1. But the leaves are less prickly-toothed, 

 less tapering, 2 to 3 inches long, broader than in the 

 preceding, the clusters of flowers longer, and the 

 flowers longer. 



3. (L. racemosa, Gray.) — Grows from the coast to 

 the base of the mountains, 4 to 8 feet high, on the 

 borders of wet places. The leaves are rather thin, 

 acute, finely toothed, 1 to li inch long. The flowers 



