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Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879 / American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts, with coloured engravings
(1817)
Kalmia latifolia, Mountain laurel, pp. Plate XIII-141
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KALMIA LATIFOLIA,
3Mountain laurel.
PLJTE XDIL
THE Swedish botanist, Peter Kalm, a pupil of
Linnieus, who travelled in North America in
4 748-9, has had the honor of giving name to one
of the most elegant genera of flowering shrubs
which our continent produces. The genus named
IWalmia by Linnaeus, includes several species, of
singular beauty, among which the Mountain lau-
rel is much the largest and most elegant, as well as
the one whose properties have received most atten-
tion. Its occurrence in the United States is very
frequent, and its common appellations of course va-
rious. The names of Laurel, Lambkill, Ivy, Spoon.
wood, and Calico bush, it seems, are applied to it in
various parts of the country. This shrub grows in
the southern parts of New Hampshire, and is oc-
casionally met with throughout Massachusetts.
In the Middle States it becomes more frequent,
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