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1. K A L M I A anguftifolia. Narrow leaved 



Kalmia. 



This kind delights in moift or fwampy places, and 

 rifes to the height of two feet or more. The leaves 

 are of a light green colour, and fometimes grow to 

 the fize of an inch and a half in length and half an 

 inch in breadth, of an oval fhape, and entire. The 

 flowers come out in clufters on every fide of the 

 ftalks, towards their extremities, and are of a beau- 

 tiful red colour. This has been called Glaucous 

 leaved Kalmia. 



2. Kalmia latifolia. Broad leaved Kalmia. 



This beautiful flowering flirub rifes often to the 

 height of fix or eight feet and fometimes to ten or 

 twelve, covered with a lightifli coloured rough bark, 

 and generally growing crooked. The leaves are of 

 a dark green colour, thick confiflience, lance-fliaped 

 and entire, in general about three inches in length 

 and one in breadth. The flowers are produced in 

 clufters at the ends of the branches and are variegat- 

 ed with red when firft opening, but change to a 

 whiter colour when expanded. There are very few 

 flowering flirubs comparable to this when in bloom. 

 The leaves are noxious to oxen and flieep, yet the 

 deer eat them with impunity. 



L A U R U S. 



The B A Y - T R E E. 

 Clafs 9. Order i. Enneandria Monogyniae 



THE EmpaLement is wanting. 

 The Corolla has fix petals, ovate, fharp pointed, contavCy 

 ajiid ere61: : the alternate exterior. 



And 



