NAT. ORDER. 
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RHODODENDEON AEBOREUM. TEEE EHODODENDEON. 
Yar. — Album, White-Floweked Variety. 
Class X. Decandria. Order I. Monogynia. 
Gen. Char, Calyx, five-parted. Corolla, somewhat funnel-form or 
campanulate : limb variously five-cleft or lobed. Stamens, five 
to ten, declined. Anthers, opening- by two terminal pores. Cap- 
sules, five-celled, five-valved, opening at the summit. 
Spe. Char. Leaves, alternate, oval, entire, subrevolute on the mar- 
gins, glaucous-pubescent beneath. Mowers, mostly in terminal 
corymbose clusters. Corolla, deeply divided into three segments, 
of which the upper one is much the broadest, two or three-lobed 
at the end. 
This is a handsome flowering shrub, remarkable for the appear- 
ing of the flowers in May, before the leaves are expanded. The 
stems are about two feet high, dividing at their tops into many erect, 
slender, flowering branches. Each branch, while yet naked of foliage, 
has a terminal corymbose cluster of half a dozen white flowers. 
The corolla is about an inch long ; the stamens are curved down- 
wards, about equal to the corolla, but rather shorter than the style. 
This plant corresponds with the Linnsean Rhododendron in all re- 
spects save the very irregular corolla ; and even in this it is not es- 
sentially different. The various species of the Rhododendron seem 
to appear to be subject to much variation in the size and color of the 
flowers, if we judge from the figures with which we are acquainted. 
The native plant produces comparatively small flowers, and are of a 
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