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The Corolla is monopetalous, bell-fliaped, and half five-cleft : 



the fide divifions inflexed. 

 The Filaments are live, filiform, free, unequal in length, and 



inferted in the receptacle. The Jntherce are fimple. 

 The Germen is roundifh. The Style filiform, the length of the 



corolla and permanent. The Stigma is obtufe. 

 The Seed-vejjel is a Capfule, roundiih, five cell'd, and five 



valv'd. 



The Seeds are fcveral, roundiili. 



OhJ. The figure of the petal in fome Species is funnel form, 

 in others bell-fhaped; the flamina in fome are alfo very long 

 and declined. 



The Species with us^ are^ 



I. Azalea nucliflora. Red-Jlowered Azalea. 



This grows moll; common upon a moift, clayey, 

 gravelly foil, rifing from two or three, to five or fix 

 feet in height. The leaves are.produced in clufters 

 at the extremity of the branches; they ajre oblong, 

 inverfe, egg-fhaped, and a little hairy upon their 

 edges and midribs underneath. The flowers are 

 produced early in the fpring before the leaves are 

 expanded, in heads or clufters at the ends of the 

 ftalks and chief branches, of a red colour, and hairy, 

 with very long red ftamina. There is great variety 

 in the colour of the flowers, from red to almoft 

 white. 



2. Azalea vifcofa. White fweet Azalea. 



This grows naturally in rich rocky places, near 

 ftreams of water; rifing to the height of five or fix 

 feet. The leaves are much fmaller and of a paler 

 green colour than thofe of the red flowered, other- 

 wife refembling them. The flowers are produced 

 after the leaves are fully expanded, (about harvefl 

 time;), they are white, hairy and clammy, and have 

 the fragrance of the honey-fuckle. 



3. Azalea ' 



