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(£ inch long) are on terminal straight branchlets, all 

 hanging to one side, and looking like rows of teeth, 

 the rows being 2 or 3 inches long. 



4. (L. recurva, Gray.) — Discovered by Mr. Buckley 

 in the mountains near Paint Rock. It is 3 to 4 feet 

 high, the leaf and flower-branches recurved ; the 

 leaves broader and more hairy than in No. 3, rounded 

 at base, finely toothed, scarcely tapering, 2 to 3 inches 

 long, deciduous as in No. 3. 



(Cassandra calyculata, Don.) — A small shrub, 2 to 

 3 feet high, growing in damp grounds of the Lower 

 District, and not unlikely in the others. The ever- 

 green leaves are about 1 inch long, J inch wide, finely 

 toothed, rather stiff, and covered, like the young 

 branches, with small white scales. The flowers are 

 on terminal branchlets, quite small, solitary in the 

 forks of small leaves. 



1. Laurel. (Rhododendron maximum, Linn.) — 

 This is rare north of Pennsylvania, but becomes 

 abundant southward in the Alleghanies, and is com- 

 mon through their whole range in this State, where 

 it often forms impenetrable thickets, many acres in 

 extent. It also grows upon rocky hills in the Mid- 

 dle District as far east as Orange. Its usual height 

 is 8 to 10 feet, but is sometimes as high as 20 feet. 

 This is a production of great beauty and universally 

 admired. The flowers, about an inch broad, grow in 

 compact clusters on the ends of the branches, and are 

 generally of a pale rose color, but sometimes whitish, 

 dotted with green and yellow on the inside. These 



