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Updated: June 5, 2025
Others again have entirely vanished within ten years, and that in some cases without any adequate explanation. The dainty white Corydalis, profanely called "Dutchman's-Breeches," and the quaint woolly Ledum, or Labrador Tea, have disappeared within that time.
As we returned I noticed a quantity of the ledum palustre, and, having plucked some of it, gave it to the boy to carry; after which, though he very much disliked its smell, he gathered every root of it that we came to, and deposited it at our tents.
It is one of the Ericaceæ, or heath tribe, of the genus Ledum though it is not a true heath, as, strange to say, no true heath is found upon the continent of America. There are two kinds of it known, the "narrow-leafed" and "broad-leafed" and the former makes the best tea.
Such cases of atavism may be observed either as specific marks, or in the way of anomalies. Ledum, Monotropa and Pyrola, or the Labrador tea, the Indian pipe and wintergreen are instances of reversionary gamopetalism with free petals. Sometimes it exhibits five free petals, while at other times only one or two are entirely free, the remaining four being incompletely loosened.
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