. 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. 2. Kalmia Carolina Small. Southern Sheep- laurel. Fig. 3229. Kalmia Carolina Small, FI. 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, s'-li' long, 4"-8" wide, obtuse, permanently canescent-tomentulose, at least beneath and paler beneath than a
. 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. 2. Kalmia Carolina Small. Southern Sheep- laurel. Fig. 3229. Kalmia Carolina Small, FI. 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, s'-li' long, 4"-8" wide, obtuse, permanently canescent-tomentulose, at least beneath and paler beneath than above; flowers purplish, 3"-4i" broad, numerous in small corymbs; pedicels verj- 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 latifolia 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 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, 1-5' long, i'-ii' wide; flowers 9"-l2" broad, pink to white, numerous and showy in compound terminal corymbs; pedicels bracted and 2-bracteolate at the base, slender, h'-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 soil. New Bruns- wick
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