NAT. ORDER. 
Bicornes. 
KALMIA GLAUCA. GLAUCOUS KALMIA. 
Class X. Decandria. Order I. Monogynia 
Gen. Char. Colyx^ five parted. Corolla^ salver-shaped. Capsule^ 
five-celled, many-seeded. Floicers, disposed in terminal, race- 
mose, compound corymbs. Pedicels^ long, one-flowered, tribroc- 
teate at the base. Buds, naked. Anthers, opening- by two 
oblique, truncate pores. 
Spe. Cliar. Branchlets, two-edg-ed or triquetrous. Leaves, opposite. 
Pedicels and Calyxes, g-labrous. 
The Calyx is a five-parted perianthium, small, and permanent ; 
the segments are subovate, acute, and rather columnar ; the corolla is 
one-petalled, and salver-funnel-form ; the tube cylindric, and long-er 
than the calyx ; the border is adorned with a flat dirk, the marg-in 
uprig-ht, and half-five-cleft ; there are ten nectariferous hornlets project- 
ing- outwardly from the corolla, and surrounding- it where the border 
of it is upright ; the stamens have ten awl-shaped filaments, upright- 
spreading, rather shorter than the corolla, and inserted into the base of 
the corolla ; the anthers are simple ; the pistill is a roundish germ ; 
the style is thread-form, longer than the corolla, and bent down ; the 
stigma obtuse ; the pericarp is a capsule, subglobose, depressed, five- 
celled, five-valved, and five-partite ; the seeds are numerous. 
,. This pla7it rises with a branching stalk to the height of ten or 
twelve feet, with very stiff" leaves, which are about two inches long 
and one broad ; they are of a lucid green on their upper surface, and 
of a pale green on their under ; they have short foot-stalks, and stand 
without any kind of order round the branches ; between these the 
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