KALMIA _angustifolia_ foliis lanceolatis, corymbis lateralibus. _Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14. Murr. p. 404. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 64. Gronov. Fl. Virg. p. 65._ CHAMÆDAPHNE sempervirens, foliis oblongis angustis, foliorum fasciculis oppositis e foliorum alis. _Catesb. Carol. app. t. 17. f. 1._ LEDUM floribus bullatis fasciculatim ex alis foliorum oppositis nascentibus, foliis lanceolatis integerrimis glabris. _Trew. Ehr. t. 38._ [Illustration: _N^o. 331_] In this work we have already given three different species of _Kalmia_, two commonly, and one more rarely cultivated with us, we mean the _hirsuta_, and which indeed we are sorry to find is scarcely to be kept alive in this country by the most skilfull management; to these we now add another species, a native also of North-America, introduced by PETER COLLINSON, Esq. in 1736, two years after he had introduced the _latifolia_; CATESBY mentions its having flowered at Peckham in 1743; it is a low shrub, rarely rising above the height of two feet, growing spontaneously in swampy ground, and flowering with us from May to July; there are two principal varieties of it, one with pale and another with deep red flowers; these two plants differ also in their habits, the red one, the most humble of the two, not only produces the most brilliant flowers, but those in greater abundance than the other; Mr. WHITLEY, who has these plants in great perfection, assures me that it usually blows in the autumn as well as summer. This shrub is extremely hardy, thriving best in bog earth, and is propagated most commonly by layers. Like the _latifolia_, it is regarded in America as poisonous to sheep. [332] OENOTHERA FRUTICOSA. SHRUBBY OENOTHERA. _Class and Order._ OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. _Generic Character._ _Calix_ 4-fidus. _Petala_ 4. _Capsula_ cylindrica infera. _Semina_ nuda. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ OENOTHERA _fruticosa_ foliis lanceolatis subdentatis, capsulis pedicellatis acutangulis, racemo pedunculato. _Linn. Syst. Veget. ed. 14. Murr. p. 358. Ait. Kew. v. 2. p. 4. L'Herit. Stirp. nov. t. 2. t. 5._ OENOTHERA florum calyce monophyllo, hinc tantum, aperto. _Gron. virg. 42._ LYSIMACHIA lutea caule rubente, foliis salicis alternis nigro maculatis, flore specioso amplo, vasculo seminali eleganter striato insidente, _Clayt. n. 36._ [Illustration: _N^o. 332_]