and somewhat tomentose towards the apex. Stamens two, 
united at the base by a small point, which appears to be a 
very minute abortive pistil. Filaments flexuose, longer 
than the perianth, purple. Anthers large, ovato-globose, 
two-lobed, each lobe constituting a cell, which opens late- 
rally by a longitudinal fissure. Piséil, for three-quarters of 
its length, enveloped by the perianth. Germen ovate, 
green, above slightly hispid, and glandular, having two 
ovules. Style incrassated, columnar, the base inserted into 
a little hollow on the top of the germen, and there at len eth 
separating from the germen. Stigma of three or four mul- 
tifid brownish-purple rays, umbilicated in the centre. Fruit 
a small orange-yellow Berry, spherical, glabrous, sur- 
rounded at the base by the scales of the perianth, with a 
small umbilicus at the top: enclosing two hemispherical, 
closely placed, wrinkled nuts, each having one erect seed 
of the same shape. Albumen white, between fleshy and 
corneous. Embryo cylindrical, in the centre of the albu- 
men, erect. i 
A native of dry and sandy soils in South Carolina and Georgia, 
where it was first detected and afterwards described by Micwavx. 
On the Edisto river, Mr. E:xiort says, *‘it covers a space of three 
or four hundred yards in width, and two or three miles long, which 
appears to have been a sand-bank formed by some of the ancient 
freshets of that river, and on which only Lichens, and a few stunt- 
ed Oaks (Q. Catesb@i and nigra) are found intermingled with it. 
I am indebted for the opportunity of figuring this hitherto 
little-known plant to my excellent friend, SrerHen Evviott, 
= of Charleston, S. Carolina, who, to an extensive collection 
of living plants of the Southern states of N. America, which he 
was so good as to send this year (March 1827), to the Glasgow 
Botanic Garden, added four of the Ceratioua ericoides. ‘These 
bore the voyage so well, as to afford immediately upon their ar- 
rival, male and female flowers and fruit. By the details that I 
have hence been able to give, it will be at once seen how closely 
this plant is allied to Empetrum; especially to E. album; and, 
perhaps, it might, without much violence to nature, be united with 
it. Empretrum nigrum has the three innermost scales of the 
flowers decidedly coloured, and of a different shape from the rest, 
spreading out and even recurved. Emrrerrum album has a dis- 
tinct mucronate bractea at the base of the flower, and two to 
four of the inner scales of the perianth, sometimes coloured 
(reddish) and a little spreading, thus being as it were intermedi- 
ate between E. nigrum and our Cerario.a. 
A. Portion of a Female Plant: nat. size. J. 1. Part of a Stem with 
Leaves. 2. Male Flower. 3. Inner Scale of ditto with Stamens. 4. Female 
Flowers with abortive lateral ones. 5. Pistil. 6. Section of Germen. _7- 
Berry. 8. Section of ditto. 9. Nuts. 10. Single Nut, interior side. 
Section of a Nut. 12. Seed. 13, Section of ditto, shewing the Embryo — 
All more or less magnified. S 
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