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A. bicolor, Gray. Shrub 3 or 4 feet high : leaves petioled, not vertical, oblong-oval, 

 thin-coriaceous, pinnately-veined, 1 or 2 inches long, white-tomentose beneath, as are the 

 ovate obtuse bracts and much imbricated sepals: pedicels very short: corolla rose-color, 

 3 or 4 lines long: filaments filiform: drupe 3 or 4 lines in diameter. Proc. Am. Acad. 

 vii. 366, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. Xt/lococcus bicolor, Nutt. I.e. San Diego Co., California, Nuttall, 

 Cooper, Cleveland, &c. Fl. February. 



A. Cleveland!. More pubescent : leaves sessile, narrower, acuminate, margins more 

 revolute : inflorescence leafy : bracts and sepals acute : corolla 4 lines long, equalled by 

 the pedicels : fruit unknown. (When the fruit becomes known,it may refer this recently 

 discovered species to the following section.) Potrero, San Diego Co., California, Cleve- 

 land. Fl. Sept. 



4. COMAROSTAPHYLIS. Leaves coriaceous, evergreen : drupe with granulate 

 or warty surface and a solid few-celled putamen.-- Comarostaphylis, Zucc. 



A. polif 61ia, HBK. Shrub 5 to 8 feet high, glabrous : leaves linear-lanceolate, pale 

 beneath : flowers in a loose terminal raceme or panicle : calyx-lobes triangular and acute : 

 corolla reddish, ovoid: drupe dark purple, small. Nov. Gen. & Spec. iii. 277, t. 258; Torr. 

 Mex. Bound. 108. California, on the southern boundary, and Mexico. 



6. EPIG--<9ilA, L. MAYFLOWER. (Formed of 'cm, upon, yj/, the earth, from 



the mode of growth.) Prostrate or somewhat creeping ; the short slender stems 

 barely shrubby, rusty-bristly, leafy only toward the summit of the flowering 

 shoots ; the leaves petioled, alternate, thin-coriaceous, veiny, pale green, persistent, 

 round-oval or elliptical, mostly cordate, entire. Flowers in earliest spring, almost 

 sessile in a short and close terminal cluster, bracteate and 2-bracteolate ; the 

 somewhat scale-like persistent bracts equalling the calyx. Sepals ovate-lanceolate 

 and acuminate, nearly scarious and often purplish. Lobes of the corolla oval, 

 either quincuncially imbricated in the bud or imbricate-con volute. Capsule 

 depressed-globose and somewhat 5-angled, bristly, thin-walled. Seeds numerous 

 on the much-projecting placenta?, round-oval, with a close and thin reticulated 

 coat. The flowers are heteromorphous and inclined to be direcious or dio3cio-dimor- 

 phous. Those with fully polliniferous anthers seldom set fruit: their stigmas short, 

 erect, slightly projecting beyond the margin of the 5-toothed ring (to the teeth of 

 which they severally are adnate) ; the style sometimes longer than the stamens 

 and projecting, sometimes shorter and included. Fully fertile flowers on other 

 plants ; their style (as in the former sort sometimes long and exserterl, sometimes 

 shorter and included) with stigmas elongated and much surpassing the ring, short- 

 linear, glutinous, radiately divergent ; their stamens either slightly polliniferous, 

 or reduced to abortive filaments, or even wanting. -- Gray, Man. ed. 5, 293, & 

 Amer. Jour. Sci. ser. 3, xii. 74. 



E. repens, L. (MAYFLOWER, TRAILING ARBUTUS, GROUND LAUREL.) Flowers mostly 

 numerous or several in the cluster, spicy-fragrant: corolla rose-color to almost white, 

 bearded inside ; its tube more or less exceeding the calyx. Lam. 111. t. 367; Andr. Bot. 

 Rep. t. 102; Bot. Reg. 3, t. 201 ; Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 384. Gravelly or sandy wood- 

 lands in the shade of evergreens, Newfoundland westward to Saskatchewan, and south to 

 Kentucky and Florida. (The other and very nearly related species is E. Asiatica, Maxim., 

 of Japan.) 



7. G-AULTHERIA, Kalm, L. AROMATIC WINTERGREEN. (Dedicated by 

 Kalm to " Dr. Gaulthier " of Quebec, whose name, as appears from the records, 

 was written Ga.ulti.er. The genus therefore should not be written Gualtheria, 

 (Scop.,&c.), nor Gualteria, Gautiera, &c., as by others. If changed at all, the right 



