. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. ERICACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Kalmia Carolina Small. Southern Sheep- laurel. Fig. 3229. Kalmia Carolina Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 886. 1903. Similar to K. angustifolia in habit, but with the foli- age, especially the younger parts, copiously fine-pubes- cent. Leaves oval to oblong, F-li' long, 4"-8" wide, obtuse, permanently canescent-tomentulose, at least beneat
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions, from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia, and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. ERICACEAE. Vol. II. 2. Kalmia Carolina Small. Southern Sheep- laurel. Fig. 3229. Kalmia Carolina Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 886. 1903. Similar to K. angustifolia in habit, but with the foli- age, especially the younger parts, copiously fine-pubes- cent. Leaves oval to oblong, F-li' long, 4"-8" wide, obtuse, permanently canescent-tomentulose, at least beneath and paler beneath than above; flowers purpHsh, 3"-4i" broad, numerous in small corymbs; pedicels very slender, canescent, 3"-6" long; calyx-segments oblong- lanceolate; style finely pubescent; capsules spheroidal, pale-pubescent and glandular, about 2" in diameter. In open woods, Virginia and North Carolina. June-July. 3. Kalmia latifolia L. American or Moun- tain Laurel. Calico-bush. Fig. 3230. Kalmia lalifolia L. Sp. PI. 391. 1753. Kalmia latifolia myrtifolia Rand, Rhodod. 125. 1876. A shrub with very stiff branches and terete twigs, often forming dense thickets, 3''-20° high, rarely becoming a tree with a maximum height of about 40° and trunk diameter of 18'. Leaves alternate, or some of them opposite, or rarely verticillate in 3's, petioled, glabrous, oval, ovate-lanceolate, or elliptic, usually acute at both ends, rarely narrowly oblong- lanceolate, flat, green on both sides, persistent, I'-s' long, i'-iV wide; flowers 9"-i2" broad, pink to white, numerous and showy in compound terminal corymbs; pedicels bracted and 2-bracteolate at the base, slender, 4'-ii' long, densely glandular, erect, even in fruit; calyx and corolla glandular; capsule depressed-globose, S-lobed, glandular, 2"-3" in diameter; calyx and filiform style long-persistent, the latter falling when the capsule begins to open. In woods, preferring sandy or rocky
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