THE 
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACY. 
JANUARY, 1845. 
ART. LI. — ON KALMIA LATIFOLIA. By R. H. Stabler, M.D. 
Nat. Ord. ERICEiE. 
Sex. Syst. Degandria Monogynia. 
Kalmia Calyx five-parted. Corolla salver-form ; border on the 
under side, producing ten cornute protuberances and as many cavities, 
in which the anthers are concealed. 
Capsule five-celled, many-seeded ; dissepiments margined. — Beck. 
K. latifolia. Leaves on long petioles, scattered and ternate, oval, 
coriaceous, green on both sides ; corymb terminal, viscidly pubescent. 
Beck's Medical Jurisprudence, Vol. 2, p. 550, 673. Barton's 
Materia Medica, part 1, p. 18. Bigelow's Med. Botany, Vol. 1, p. 137, 
139. 
Common names. Laurel, Mountain Laurel, Broad-leaved Laurel, 
Bay, Calico Bush, Mountain Ivy. 
Not officinal. 
Description. — This is an indigenous shrub, having a root 
very irregularly branched, giving offsetts immediately be- 
low the surface and shooting deep into the soil. The tex- 
ture of both it and the stems, is very firm, and employed 
by the Indians in making various useful articles, such as 
spoons, trowels, &c. There are generally three principal 
stems to each plant. They are dichotomously branched, 
and vary in height from three to twenty feet ; have a rough 
striated appearance imparted to them by the longitudinal 
splitting, and separation of the external layers of bark, and 
vol. x. — no. iv. 22 
