Gaultheria,] ERlCEiE. 



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Hab. Lake Huron. Dr. Todd, Throug^hout Canada to the Saskatchawan. Dr, Richardson^ Drummond, 

 Newfoundland. Dr, Morrison. Mr. Cormach Miss Brenton. Plentiful in swampy grounds near the con- 

 fluence of the Columbia with the Pacific, where its berries are boiled and eaten by the natives under the 

 name of Soolahich, Douglas. 



SUBCL. COROLLIFLOR^. DC. 



Ord. LIV. ERICE^. Juss. 



1. GAULTHERIA. i. 



CaL 5-4-fidus5 basi carnosus infra bracteatus. Corolla ovata. Umbo brevi 5-4-fido. 

 Stam, 10-8. Filamenta plana sa^pe hirsuta, imse corollae inserta v. hypogyna. Anther(B apice 

 bifidsej lobis biaristatis vel muticis. Discus hypogynus 5-10-dentatus vcl nullus. Capsula 

 calyce baccato incl usa, 5-loculnris5 valvis medio septiferis, Semina angulata. 



1. G, procumbens; caule procumbente, ramis erectis inferne nudis, foliis obovatis basi at- 

 tenuatis cilia to-serratis, floribus aggregatis subterminalibus nutantibus, disco liypogyno 

 S-dentato, filamentis pilosis, antlieris bisetosis. — Lin7i, — Mich. FL Am, t\ \.p, 249. Pursh, 

 FL Am. V. l.p. 283. Elliott^ Carol v. 1. p. 501. Bigel. Fl. Bost ed. 2. p. 164. Torrey^ FL 

 ofUn. St. V, I. p. 412. 



Hab. Lake Huron. Dr. Todd. About Quebec. Mrs. p€7'cival, Mrs. Skcppard; and this seems to be its 

 most northern limit. 



2. G. Myrsinites; humilis, ramis csespitosis radicantibus, foliis late ovatis ciliato-serratis, 

 floribus solitariis pi uri -brae teat is, corolla vix calycem longiori, antheris muticis, filamentis 

 glabrls, disco hyjiogyno nuUo. (Tab. CXXIX.) 



Caulis brevis, raraosus ; ra77ii pUirinii, csespitosi, procumbentes, longe radicantes. Folia late ovata, coriaceo- 

 membranacea, nitida, venosa, c'liato-serrata. Flores minuti, solitarii, axillares. Pedunculi perbreves, brac- 

 teati, bracteis 4-5 ovat»s. Calyx basi carnosus, limbo 5-fidus. Corolla vix calyce longior, 5-fida, subcam- 

 panulata. Filamenta pistillo paulo breviora, g^Iabra, Antherce oblongae vix apice bifidae, aristis nullis. Dis- 

 cus hypogynus nullus. Ovarium depresso-globosum, 5-lobum, calycis basi cainosa incrassata insidens. 

 Stylus cylindraceus. Stigma simplex, Fructus; capsula 5-locularis, 5-vaIvis, calyce ampUato baccato 

 rubro tecta ; valvis medio septiferis. Semina uumerosa, reniformi-angulata, exarillata, nltida, fusca. Albumen 

 carnosum. Embryo axilis, cylindraceus, 



Hab. Rocky Mountains, between lat. 5'^° and 5i°. Drummond. — This beautiful little plant is loaded with 

 scarlet berries, which its discoverer describes as " delicious, and reserabiiog' the pine-apple in flavour." 

 The anthers diflTer from those of the other known Gaultherim^ but the rest of the fructification and the 

 habit entirely correspond with the present Genus. I ought to observe that the flower is drawn from the 

 only two blossoms I could find on the whole of the specimens, and that appearing at an unusual season 

 (while the fruit is in perfection) they were probably smaller than usual, scarcely a line in length, and quite 

 concealed among the foliage. 



Tab. CXXIX.— T^/V;. 1, Leaf; Jig. g. Flower; fig. 3, Corolla; fig. 4, Stamens and Pistil;^/?, 5, .5, Back and 

 front view of a staracnj^c?. G, Pistil; fig. 7, Section of the ovary ; fig. 8, 8, Fruits; fig. 9, Section of a 

 capsule which has burst, surrounded by the fieshy calyx, and seated upon its thickened base (as in G. pro- 

 cumbens and G. hispidula);fig. 10, 10, Seeds; fig. 11, Section of a seed: — magnified. 



