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The Corolla is monopetalous, bell-fliaped, and half five-cleft : 
the fide divifions infiexed. 
The Filaments are five, filiform, free, unequal in length, and 
inferted in the receptacle. The Antheroe 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, roundifh, five cell’d, and five 
valv’d. 
The Seeds are fever al, roundifh. 
Obf. The figure of the petal in fome Species is funnel form, 
in others bell-fhaped; the ftamina in fome are alfo very long 
and declined. 
The Species with us, are , 
i. Azalea nudiflora. Red-flowered Azalea . 
This grows mod common upon a mold, clayey* 
gravelly foil, rifing from two or three, to five or. fix 
feet in height. The leaves are produced in clutters 
at the extremity of the branches; they are oblong, 
inverfe, egg-lhaped, 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 clutters at the ends of the 
(talks 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 flweet 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 harveft 
time;) they are white, hairy and clammy, and have 
the fragrance of the honey-fuckle. 
3, Azalea 
