above its point of union with the calyx. Itis very common 
in the Northern States of America, and in Canada, and 
bears a fruit which, according to American writers, is very 
much esteemed. 
Descr. A low dwarf shrub in our gardens, rarely rising 
more than from eight or ten inches toa foot high, the young 
branches greenish, and rough with very minute warts, and 
slightly downy. Leaves small, lanceolate, glabrous, some- 
what shining, conspicuously so beneath, membranaceous, 
serrulated and minutely ciliated at the margin. Flowers in 
dense, crowded, many-flowered, secund and drooping brac- 
teated racemes. Pedicels very short. Calyx of five, rather 
deep, erect lobes. Corolla shortly cylindrical, approaching 
to campanulate, the mouth open, with five, recurved, blunt 
teeth: the colour a pale greenish-white more or less tinged 
with red, sometimes in streaks. 
ft oe 1, 2. Flowers, 3. Stamen. 4. Pistil and Calyx. 5. Leaf: magni- 
ed. 
