161. 
Rhododendron 
1. Flowers preceding the leaves or accompanying the 
young ones. 
2. Plants colonial, with subterranean stolons; corolla 
buds with rows of stalked glands; conolla glabrous 
within. Expected (R. atlanticum). 
2. Plants not strikingly colonial; corolla buds 
glandless; corolla tube pubescent within. 
3. Leaves pubescent beneath; flowers fragrant. 
Expected (R. maximum, R. atlanticum). 
3. Leaves glabrous beneath or with strigose midrib; 
flowers not fragrant. (Also, pedicels and calyx 
not glandular; corolla tube pilose without)....... R. nudiflorum 
1. Flowers expanding after the leaves. 
4. Young branchlets and leaves glabrous; calyx lobes 
not glandular; ovary densely glandular-villous. 
Expected (R. arborescens). 
4, Young branchlets bristly or strigose; leaves bristly 
on the midrib beneath; pedicels and calyx lobes 
glandular-hirsute; ovary strigose, not glandular..... R. viscosum 
Rhododendron nudiflorum (L.) Torr. Election-pink, 
Pinxter-flower 
Java Farm. Infrequent on Fox Point (hectare 3559; canopy of 
Quercus prinus) and on west-facing slope overlooking Muddy Creek 
(hectare 3415; canopy of Fagus grandifolia and associates). Canopy 
at both sites includes Quercus alba, Q. velutina, and Carya tomentosa. 
Associate species at both stations: Gaylussacia baccata, Kalmia 
latifolia, Vaccinium spp. Higman 102, 401. 
R. viscosum (L.) Torr. Swamp Honeysuckle 
Java Farm. Infrequent at Fox Point. Hectare 3559. Canopy and 
associates as for R. nudiflorum, above. Higman 646. 
