two or three together. Peduncle ferruginous, glanduloso- 
hirsute and clammy, with small, concave, imbricated brac- 
tee at the base, and a larger, reflexed one at the base of 
each pedicel. Below the middle of the pedicel, but not at 
the very base, are two small, white, reflexed, ovate bractezx. 
Flowers secund and pendent, white, clothed with viscid, 
red, glandular hairs. Cal. of the same colour as the corolla, 
and closely embracing its base. Corolla ovate, the mouth 
five-toothed, the teeth small, reflexed. Stamensten: Fila- 
ment broad, white, ciliated: Anther oblong, two-celled, 
opening by two pores, and behind them are two bifid horns. 
Discovered by Arcuipatp Menzies, ae on the North- 
west coast of America, growing in pine forests, under the 
shade of trees where scarcely any other plant would live. 
Its handsome and graceful flowers, with the large, glossy, 
evergreen leaves, render it most desirable for the American 
border : but it was not till last year that we had any pros- 
of cultivating so great a rarity, when seeds arrived, 
for the Horticultural Society of London and for the 
Glasgow Botanic Garden, gathered at the Columbia by Dr. 
Scouter and Mr. Dovetas. These soon vegetated, and 
from the first plant that blossomed in our Botanic Garden 
early in May, 1828, the accompanying figure was made. 
There is no doubt that the plant will succeed well in the 
open air, treated like other North American shrubs, and 
that it will then produce stronger stems, and more nume- 
rous flowers. — 
The berries of the Shallon are much esteemed by the 
natives, on account of their agreeable flavour; and we 
can attest their excellence from having tasted some which 
Dr. Scouter brought home. 
Sir James Smiru, in Rees’s Cyclopedia, seems to have 
taken this plant for the Gautruerta erecta, of Venrenat, 
Hort. Cels: but that is a native of Peru, and though, un- 
questionably, very nearly resembling this, has the leaves 
less distinctly serrated, ferruginously downy beneath, and 
flowers of a bright red colour. 
Pe 1, Flower, Pedicel, and Bracter, 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil—Magni- 
