DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Kalmia. 29/ 
Icon. Bot. viag.175. Wangh.amer. £.24./. 50. Catesl, 
car. 2. t. 98. 
On the sides of stony hills : Canada to Carolina. T? • 
June, July. v. v. A shrub from three to eight feet 
high, very elegant when in flower ; called Laurel or 
in the mountains Callico-lush. The whole of this 
genus are evergreen. 
360. EPIGiEA. Gen. pi. 748. 
1. E. ramis petiolis nervoque hirsutissimis, foliis cordato- repens . 
ovatis integerrimis, corollis cylindricis. — Willd. sp. 
pl 2. p. 615. 
Icon. Bot. rep. 102. Lam. illustr. t. 36j.f. 1. Pluk. 
aim. t. 107./ 1. 
On shady rocks and in stony woods : Canada to Carolina. 
\2 . May — July. v. v. A small trailing and creeping 
plant ; flowers white, tinged with red, very fragrant. 
361. RHODODENDRON. Gen. pl. 74 6. 
3. R. arborescens 5 foliis oblongis acutis subtus discoloribus, maximum. 
umbellis terminalibus, calycis laciniis ovalibus obtusis, 
corollis campanulatis. — JVilld. sp. pl. 2. p. 606. 
a. R. foliis elliptico-oblongis convexis -basi obtusiusculis roseum* 
subtus albicantibus vel ferrugineis, corollae laciniis sub- 
rotundis, stylo staminibus vix longiore, floribus albi- 
do-roseis. 
R. maximum Schmidt ari. 1. 121. Bot.mag.Q5l. lona. 
Lam. illustr. 364. 
/3. R. foliis cuneato-lanceolatis planis basi sensim acutis sub- album, 
tus pallidioribus, corollae laciniis rotundato-oblongis, 
stylo staminibus vix longiore, floribus minoribus 
albidis. 
y. R. altissimum ; foliis majoribus oblongo-ellipticis pia- purpureum, 
niusculis basi obtusiusculis utrinque viridibus, corollae 
laciniis oblongis obtusis, stylo staminibus paulo lon- 
giore, Horibm purpurascentibus. 
a. In the mountains, near rivulets and lakes : Canada to 
Carolina. /3. In shady cedar-swamps of New Jersey 
and Delaware, y. On the highest mountains of Vir- 
ginia and Carolina, near lakes. ^ a June, July. 
/3. July, Aug. y. May, June. v. v. This elegant 
shrub, with its varieties, grows from four to twenty 
feet high 5 flowers large and in great abundance. The 
