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GAUTHERIA* Shallon. 
The Shallon Gautheria. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Erıczz Jussieu. (Introduction to the natural system of 
Botany, p. 182.) 
GAUTHERIA L.—Calyz 5-fidus, in fructu baccatus. ; Corolla mono- 
petala, urceolata. Stamina 4-5; anthere bicornes. Capsula chartacea, 
5-locularis, polysperma, intra calycem baccatum inclusa. 
G. Shallon ; suberecta, foliis subcordato-ovatis acutis serratis marginibus 
. ramisque junioribus hispidis, racemis secundis, pedicello infra medium 
bibracteato, corollis viscoso-glandulosis. Hooker in bot. mag. t. 2843. 
Gaultheria Shallon. Pursh fl. am. sept. 1. 284. Nutt. gen. 1. 263. 
Frutex humilis, sempervirens, stoloniferus, primüm decumbens, mox 
erectus, in hortis pedalis, in fera natura orgyalis, inter arbores in pinetis 
quercetisque crescens. Folia atroviridia, venosa. Flores racemosi, albi, 
roseo suffusi, inter folia absconditi. Fructus purpureo-lateritii, succosi, 
mucilaginosi, fatui. 
For years this had been an object of great interest with 
Botanists, as being likely to become an important addition 
to our artificial Flora, if either seeds or living plants could 
be procured, when it was received by the Horticultural 
Society from Mr. Douglas, in 1826. A very large number 
of seedlings was raised, and distributed among the public ; 
and it has proved a hardy handsome evergreen, running 
along the surface of the ground, but with no disposition 
to arrive at a stature exceeding that of a dwarf bush. Per- 
haps when older it may acquire the state in which it is 
found in North-west America. 
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* As this plant has been named after either one Gaulthier, the author 
of an Introduction to Botany, published in 1760, or of Gautier, a French 
writer upon Natural History, about the same period, it seems that the proper 
orthography of the word will be as it is printed above. 
