He introduced the plant to Europe, where it is known as kalmia, and extensively cultivated on fine estates that are thrown open to the public during the flowering season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

The boreal forest in this ecoregion is characterized by dwarf, open and sometimes closed cover patches of black spruce (Picea mariana) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea) alternating with communities of dwarf kalmia (kalmia polifolia) and mosses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newfoundland Highland forests] Reference

'Madam, the kalmia has precisely the colours of a seraph's wing.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference

The kalmia and the alder gave undergrowth and brilliancy to the foliage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times] Reference

The azalia, the shumac, and every variety of that beautiful mischief, the kalmia, are in equal profusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Manners of the Americans] Reference

Here I found many of my old favorites the heathworts -- kalmia, pyrola, chiogenes, huckleberry, cranberry, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in Alaska] Reference

As we got older and had memorised whole verses, such as the kalmia and the qul, we were told to recite that several times before going to bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Muslims] Reference

To the left, covering the mountain-side, were masses of evergreen kalmia, and above them tall and leafless trees in whose branches the wind made a grating sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Roll] Reference

Shrubs also hasten in time to the new gardens, -- kalmia with its glossy leaves and purple flowers, the arctic willow, making soft woven carpets, together with the healthy bryanthus and cassiope, the fairest and dearest of them all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter] Reference

"Dr. Darwin was conversing with a brother botanist concerning the plant kalmia, then a just imported stranger in our greenhouses and gardens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference

As gayly as these kalmia flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

Clings to the fragrant kalmia, clings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

4/9/09 1:18 PM kalmia said.    From Wordnik.com.  [2 good dogs.] Reference

4/9/09 1:47 PM kalmia said.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Ivan Karamazov said that if God does not exist everything is permitted..."] Reference

4/4/09 6:53 PM kalmia said.    From Wordnik.com.  [An article in the New York Times: "Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version."] Reference

4/4/09 7:28 PM kalmia said.    From Wordnik.com.  [An article in the New York Times: "Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version."] Reference

4/24/09 2:22 PM kalmia said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picnic with dog and iPhone.] Reference

4/6/09 12:31 AM kalmia said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meade reads the paper.] Reference

4/9/09 11:48 AM kalmia said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breast implants.] Reference

4/16/09 2:17 PM kalmia said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cats. (Kitties.)] Reference

4/21/09 6:52 PM kalmia said.    From Wordnik.com.  ["I'm going to stop this car right now and leave you here!''] Reference

Broad-leaved kalmia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

The timber of this county includes all the varieties known in the mountains -- oak, hickory, walnut, elm, beech, birch, sycamore, maple, locust, buckeye, pine, the hemlock, spruce and others, with an undergrowth of chinquepin, dogwood, laurel, kalmia, azalea and other shrubby trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference

The Pacific coast possesses no papaw, no linden or basswood, no locust-trees, no cherry-tree large enough for a timber tree, no gum-trees, no sorrel-tree, nor kalmia; no persimmon-trees, not a holly, only one ash that may be called a timber tree, no catalpa or sassafras, not a single elm or hackberry, not a mulberry, not a hickory, or a beech, or a true chestnut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atlantis : the antediluvian world] Reference

"The landscape is variegated, too, by tracts of thirty, and even forty miles in extent, covered with dense forests of the balsam fir trees, appearing, in the distance, dark as 'the plumage of the raven's wing,' and green carpets of elastic moss, and countless vernal flowers, among which the numerous species of the azalea, the kalmia, and the rhododendron, especially contend in the variety, delicacy, and brilliancy of their hues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mountain Scenery. The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina.] Reference