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EPIGÆA repens. 
Creeping Epigea, or Ground-laurel. 
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DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Erıcz. Jussieu gen. 159. Div. І. Germen superum. 
Екісеж. Brown prod. 557. 
ЕРТС ФА. Cal. 5-partitus, caliculo 3-phyllo cinctus s. 3-bracteatus, 
Соғ, hypocrateriformis, basi tubulosa, limbo patente 5-partito. Stam. non 
exserta, imæ corolla inserta ; anth. oblonge. Stigma sub5-fidum. Caps. 
5-loc., 5-valv., receptaculo 5-partito. Suffrutex repens sempervirens ; folia 
alterna ; flores bracteolati, dens? racemosi, axillares et terminales. Jus. 1. c. 161. 
E. repens, ramis petiolis nervoque hirsutissimis, foliis cordato-ovatis inte- 
gerrimis, corollis cylindricis. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 997. 
Epigza repens. Lin. sp. pl. 1. 565. Mill. dict. ed. 8. п. Hort. Kew. 2.71. 
ed. 2. 3. 55. Mich. bor.-amer. 1. 950. — Andrews's reposit. 102. Willd. 
sp. pl. 2. 615. Lam. illustr. 1. 367. fig. 1. Bigelow fl. bost, 101. 
Epigea. Lin. ат. ac. 3. 17. Стоп. virg. ed. 9. 67. 
Memecylum. Mitch. nov. pl. gen. ХИТ. in act. nat. curios. 8. 213; (nor 
Mich. nov. gen. ac male habet Willdenovius.) 
Arbutus foliis ovatis integris, petiolis laxis lóngitudine foliorum. Gron. 
virg. 49. 
Pyrolze affinis Virginiana repens fruticosa, foliis rigidis, scabritie exaspe- 
ratis, fl. pentapetaloide fistuloso. Pluk. alm. 309. t. 107. f. 1. 
Fruticulus repens sempervirens ferrugineo-villosus, caulis alterne ramosus 
ramique- teretes; fol. patentia, membranaceo-rigentia, cordato-elliptica т. 
ovata, obtusa cum mucronulo, villis rufis asperiuscula, immersé venosa, sub- 
tüs nitida, suprà viridi-rufa, modo biuncialia : ` petioli strictiusculi, hirsuti, 
teretes suprà canaliculati. Racemi axillares et terminales, —— 
Hori, raro 1-flori ; pedunculi pedicellique brevissimi, bracteis subherbaceis, 
naviculari-subulatis, hirsutis, ad florem terminalem binis atque cum calyculo 
decussantibus, ad ceteros singularibus. Calyculus bifolius ad basin pedicelli 
ter brevioris glabri, bracteá exceptus; foliolis oppositis ovato-lanceolatis, 
membrano-herbaceis, convexis, glaberrimis, cuspidatis, calycem partim. inclu- 
dentibus. Flores semunciales magisve, odorem amariusculum non ingratum 
spirantes. Cal. connivens, bast intrusus, foliolis calyculi similibus, subminori- 
bee, lanioribus. Cor. carneo-albicans: tubus cylindricus calyce limboque 
Jermé duplo longior, intús albo-lanatus : lac. limbi «equales, ol longo-ovate, 
glabra. Stam. tubo subemicantia: fil. corolla fundo inserta, basi pilosiuscula : 
anth. erecte adnate, dithece, lineares, introrsúm sublunulata indeque rimis 
2 longis dehiscentes, dorso fusco-carinate: pollen grumosum, ochroleucum. 
Germ. albo-hirsutum, disco crasso virente 10-dentato insidens: stylus columel- 
lari-filiformis, equans stamina, virens, glaber : stig. 5-dentato-obtusum. 
A small trailing evergreen shrub found in the shade of 
forests from Canada to Carolina, and known in some parts 
of the United States by the name of “ Ground-laurel.” In- 
troduced into England by Мг, Peter Collinson, in 1736. 
