1783 
* EMPÉTRUM rúbrum. 
Red Crowberry. 
DICECIA TRIANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Emperrex, Nuttall. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p. 109.) 
EMPETRUM, L. 4 Sguame imbricate, quarum tres interiores peta- 
loidex. Stamina 3. 9 Sguame maris. Ovarium 6-9-loculare ; ovulis 
solitariis ascendentibus. Stigma sessile, radiis plicatis tot quot loculi. Peri- 
carpium baccatum, seminibus osseis. 
E. rubrum ; ramulis foliisque margine lanulosis. 
E. rubrum. Willd. sp. pl. 4. 713. 
Suffrutex sempervirens, virgatus, procumbens, visu subcinereo. Rami 
purpurascentes, graciles, ramosi, laná laxá intricatá vestiti, Folia linearia, 
3 lineas longa, petiolata, marginibus veris reflexis in medio dorsi attingenti- 
bus, spuriis laná ciliatis. Flores axillares, solitarii; masculi e squamis con- 
stantes imbricatis, circiter novem, quarum 3 interiores corolle formam in- 
duunt et sub aspectu petalorum trium linearium cuneatorum, fusco-purpu- 
reorum, apice reflexorum se expandunt. Stamina 3; antheris oblongis 
2-locularibus in filamenta debilia vacillantibus. Rudimentum ovaru. Fe- 
minei maribus sunt similes, sed omninó anandri. Ovarium sphericum, 9- 
loculare. Stigma sessile, fusco-purpureum, radiis novem plicatis stellam 
referentibus. 
A hardy evergreen shrub, lately introduced by Mr. Low 
of the Clapton Nursery, under the name of ** the Cranberry 
of Staten Island.” 
It is a plant that is found all over the Southern point of 
South America, growing with Pernettia mucronata along the 
sandy coast, spreading over the stones, but especially 
thriving at the back of the low sandhills, by which the shore 
* From ev in, and rerpoc a stone, in allusion to the rocky places it grows 
among. 
