or resinous substance exudes, partially covering the foliage. 
Racemes about as long as the leaves, pendulous, pubes- 
centi-glandulose, as are the bracteas and flowers: these 
latter are few, three to five (Dovetas), nearly sessile, and 
collected into a sort of head at the extremity of the pe- 
duncle. Bractea large, ovate, concave, dentato-serrate at 
the extremity, much longer than the germen, and quite 
concealing the lower part of the flower. Calyx cylindrical, 
with five obtuse angles corresponding with the five small, 
recurved segments, pale yellow-green, almost white. Petals 
each a small white scale, scarcely protruded above the 
tube. Stamens 5, inserted above the middle of the tube 
of the calyx. Anthers very small, yellow. Germen glo- 
bose, subdepressed, green, glabrous. Style as long as the 
tube. Stigma 2-lobed. “ Berries smooth, scarlet, glossy.” 
(Dovetas.) 
Introduced by Mr. Davin Dovetas to the Horticultural 
Society of London, (to whose liberality our Glasgow Bota- 
nic Garden is indebted for the plant,) having been dis- 
covered by him growing abundantly on the Columbia and 
its Southern po sa | streams, from the Great Falls to the 
Rocky Mountains, delighting in light gravelly or sandy 
soils. It does not appear that the fruit is particularly 
agreeable. 
It is perfectly hardy, and flowers in April and May. 
: Fig. 1. Flower and Bractea. 2. Pistil. 3. Stamen. 4. Petal. 5. Por- 
tion of a Leaf, with its Glands. 6, One of the Glands,—All more or less 
magnified, 
