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Title: Trees and shrubs, hardy in the British isles
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bean, William Jackson, 1863-
Subjects: Shrubs Trees
Publisher: London J. Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Kalmia cuneata. lobes J in. long, ovate, green, smooth ; flower^stalks thread-like, ; to i) ins.long, beset with a few scattered hairs. Native of the Carolinas, south-eastern United States ; discovered byMichaux, and introduced to Britain in 1820, but for many years quite lost tocultivation, until reintroduced to Kew in 1904. It is a distinct species, but hasa somewhat inelegant habit owing to its sparse branching. It loses all or KALMIA C81 nearly all its leaves in severe weather, and is, perhaps, seen to best advanta-eplanted thinly with an undergrowth of some dwarf peat-lovin- cvcrLTcen likeLeiophyllum or Bruckenthalia. K. GLAUCA, Alton. Pali-: Laurkl. (Bot. Mag., U 177 ; K. jiolifolia, Wangenhnm.)An evergreen shrub, i to 2 ft. high, of rather thin, erect, bifurcating habit.
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Kalmu olauca. but bushy ; young shoots two-edged, covered with a fine down at first. Leavesopposite in pairs, or in threes ; narrowly oblong or ovate ; J to li ins. lon^-,I to ij in. wide ; recurvetl at the margins, tajH-ring at both ends ; dark lustniu^green above, and smooth except on the midrib ; lower surface glaucous while ;stalk .V in. long, apjjressed to the stem. Flowers in a terminal, tlatti^h < luster,I or l\ ins. across ; produc ed late in April. Corolla sauccr-sha;H*d, about A in.across, with five broad, shallow lobes, of a beautiful pale purplish rose ; stamens 682 KALMIA—KERR (A of tlie same colour, but with brown antlicrs. Calyx-lobes J in. long-, oblong ;tlower-stalks smooth, very slender. Native of Eastern N. America ; introduced in 1767. Naturally a swampplant, it likes a cool, moist soil. Under the drier conditions usually given itunder cultivation it is a sturdier, more erect shrub than it appears to be innature, where it is described as straggling. It is very

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