. 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 102nd meridian. Botany. Asalea procumbens L. Sp. PI. Loiseleuria procumbens Desv. Journ. Bot. (11) i: C. serpyllifolia S. F. Gray, Bot. Arr. Brit. PI. 2 : 401. 1821. Chamaecistus procumbens Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 388. 1891. Tufted, much branched, diflfuse, branches 2-4' long. Leaves mostly opposite, rather crowded, dark green above, paler beneath, 2"-4" long, the midrib very promine
. 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 102nd meridian. Botany. Asalea procumbens L. Sp. PI. Loiseleuria procumbens Desv. Journ. Bot. (11) i: C. serpyllifolia S. F. Gray, Bot. Arr. Brit. PI. 2 : 401. 1821. Chamaecistus procumbens Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 388. 1891. Tufted, much branched, diflfuse, branches 2-4' long. Leaves mostly opposite, rather crowded, dark green above, paler beneath, 2"-4" long, the midrib very prominent, on the lower side, the margins strongly revolute; petioles i" long or less; flowers 1-5 from terminal coriaceous buds; pedicels 3"-4" long;.corolla pink or white, about 2" high, longer than the purplish sepals; capsule about i" thick. Summits of the higher mountains of New England, Mt. Albert, Quebec ; Nova Scotia ; Newfoundland and Labrador to arctic America and Alaska. Also in Greenland, northern Europe and Asia. July-Aug. 8. KALMIA L. Sp. PI. 39i- i753- Erect branching shrubs, with entire evergreen coriaceous leaves, alternate, opposite, or verticillate in 3's. Flowers in naked umbels or corymbs. 5-parted or 5-divided, the segments imbricated in the bud, persistent. Corolla saucer-shaped, the limbs strongly lo-keeled in the bud, 5-lobed, with 10 pouches below the limb, the keels extending from the pouches to the lobes and sinuses. Stamens 10, shorter than the corolla; anthers oblong, awnless, the sacs opening by large terminal pores; filaments erect in the bud. soon curving outward, placing the anthers in the pouches of the corolla, straightening elastically when the flower is fully expanded. Disk lo-crenate. Ovary 5-celled; ovules numerous; style slender; stigma depressed-capitellate. Capsule subglobose, obscurely 5-lobed, 5-celled, septicidally 5-valved from the summit. Seeds small, subglobose. [Dedicated by Linnaeus to his pupil, Peter
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