Crass X.—-DECANDRIA. 
a 
Orper IL.—MONOGYNIA. 
} Flowers monopetalous. 
$77. ARBUTUS. L. (Bear-berry, &c.) 
Calix minute, 5-parted. Corolla ovate, dia- 
ies at the base, border small, 5-cleft, revo- 
te. te sees superior, 5-celled; cells 1, or many- 
aie amas or shrubby; leaves alternate; flowers axil- 
lary or terminal subracemose. 
Species. 1. A. laurifolia. 2. Menziesii, Pu. 3. tomen- 
tesa. Pu. These 3 species are indigenous to the North 
West coast of America only. 4. alpina. 5. Uva ursi. 
A smalland widely dispersed genus, there being 4 spe- 
cies in Europe, one of them also indigenous to Candia‘and 
mount Ida, 2 others are common to North America. there 
is likewise 1 in the Levant, 1 in Acadia, 1 in some unknown 
part of America, 1 in Peru and 2-in TictRedel Fuego. 
378. GAULTHERIA. L. (Mountain-tea, Par- 
tridge- berry, &c.) 
agen Calix 5-cleft, or 5-toothed, bibracteate at the 
__ hase. Corolla ovate, border partly 5-cleft, revo- 
lute. Filaments of the stamina hirsute; Torus 
or receptacle 10-tuothed. Capsulé superior, 5- 
isc invested by the calix which becomes a 
oy low ned suffruticose; leares alternate or facicula- 
.m4 virent; eo nes tg solitary or racemose. 
a lly in the thas 
Sa aN Ste: Stem sm procumen, 
repent, | S08; a very shori, erect . 
and puboactles hoor we Shoot 4 or 6, crowded at 
the summit, obovate, ciliate-denticulate. Flowers axil- 
lary and solitary, nutant. Calix 5-toothed, bibracteate at 
— base. Corolla ovate, _— a 5-toothed, inter- 
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