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mountain laurel
= kalmia.
1759Miller Gard. Dict. (ed. 7) s.v. Kalmia Ever-green Rose Laurel..commonly called in America Mountain Laurel. 1810F. A. Michaux Hist. Arbres Forestiers de l'Amérique Septentrionale I. 35 Mountain laurel,..dénomination la plus générale. 1832D. J. Browne Sylva Amer. 191 The Mountain Laurel is a large shrub, which indifferently bears the name Mountain Laurel, Laurel, Ivy, and Calico Tree. 1845S. Judd Margaret i. ii. 8 She got running mosses..and mountain laurel blossoms. 1880Harper's Mag. June 80 The mountain laurel, with its deep green foliage and showy clusters peers above that rocky crag. 1887Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 5) 605 The leaves, under the name of ‘Mountain Laurel’, are said to be a valuable remedy in obstinate diarrhœa. 1906J. A. Harrison George Washington 91 The bluish-pink masses of the mountain-laurel. 1955[see kalmia]. 1973Robichaud & Buell Vegetation of New Jersey 329 Kalmia..latifolia. Mountain laurel. |