394 WOODY PLANTS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
Sp. 2. Tse Narrow-Leavep Karma. KK. angustifolia. LL. 
Figured in Catesby’s Carolina, I, Plate 117, where itis called Chamedaphne 
sempervirens. Audubon’s Birds, I, Plate 195. 
A low, evergreen shrub, usually half a foot or a foot high, 
rarely two feet, forming often small tufts or patches in low 
grounds. ‘The stem is ascending, covered with a brown bark, 
shining through the thin, membranaceous silvery epidermis, 
in recent shoots of a light reddish green. Branches often in 
threes. Leaves in whorls of three, entire, lance-shaped, revo- 
lute on the margin, with the mid-rib very prominent beneath, 
shining green above, paler and often rusty beneath, of a soft, 
leathery texture, those of the previous year browner and harder. 
Flowers in corymbs, in from three to twelve whorls of three, 
in the axils of the persistent last year’s leaves, and surmounted 
by the new leaves. In each axil is a panicle consisting of about 
three imperfect whorls of three flowers. At the base of each 
flower-stem is a small linear bract, and two smaller ones on the 
sides. ‘The flowers are very beautiful, of a deep rose-red. 
From its supposed poisonous effect upon lambs, this plant is 
often called damb-hill or sheep-kill. It is found from Hudson’s 
Bay to Georgia. 
There are many slight varieties of this plant, some of them 
remarkable for leaves glaucous beneath and somewhat so above. 
sp. 3. Tae Graucous Kaumia. KK. glauca. Aiton. 
Figured in Audubon’s Birds, IJ, Plate 193. 
An almost aquatic plant, with a long, straggling stem, with a 
greenish brown, smooth bark, and slender, two-edged, opposite 
branches, or three-edged in whorls of three. The leaves are 
opposite, or in threes, nearly sessile, linear-lance-shapcd, entire, 
obiuse or pointed, wedge-shaped at base, revolute at the edge, 
of a brilliant dark green above, whitish or glaucous beneath. 
Flowers in terminal corymbs, made of alternately opposite pairs, 
or in threes, from the axil of a small leaf or bract, with two 
lateral scales. Footstalks thread-luke, three fourths of an much 
long. Calyx persistent, with five long, obtuse, brown segments. 
