6 Gaultheria (Kalm) L. 
Low undershrubs or perennial herbs with flowers solitary in the 
axils or in short axillary racemes, ‘Sepals 5. Corolla urn-shaped or 
camvanulate. Stamens 10, included, the filaments dilated at the base, 
Ovary 5-chembered. Fruit berry-like, the capsule being enclosed by 
the fleshy calyx at maturity. 
O Leaves 1.5=4 em. long; stems villous with slender 
4 soft hairs; fruit bristly |. Ge ovatifolia 
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© Leaves 8-20 mm. long; fruit glabrous; stems glabrous ? G,. humifusa 
1. Ge ovatifolia Cray. Creeping Wintergreen, A prostrate evergreen herb, 
the leaves commonly dropped the second year, the rootstocks slender, 
creeping, the branches often numerous, spreading fan-shaped over the 
ground, bearing eee at length reddish hairs; leaves 1,5-4 cm, long, 1,5=35 
cm, wide, leathery, smooth, somewhat glossy, broadly ovate or the smaller 
nearly orbicular, mostly obtuse, rounded or even somewhat cordate at the 
base, the margins lightly serrulate, the petioles l*2 mm, long, hairy like 
the stems; flowers subtended by several small bracts, the peduncles 3-6 
mm, long; calyx woolly, the lobes ovate-triangular, acute with thin margins, 
2mm. long; corolla white, 5-6 mm, long, bell-shaped, the free tips 
recurved; anthers 1.5 ma. long, dilated et the bases; fruit bright red but 
not glossy, 5-6 mn, in diameter, bristly; lobules 53; seeds. numerous, less 
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then 1 mm, long, brown. 
Infrequent, growing in +he deep e# shaded woods threvghent our regton, 
The fruit is agreeable to taste and slightly aromatic. Forks of St. Maries 
Re, 5200 fte, Leiberg 1155; Priest Lake, Piper 3159; Upper Priest Re, 
300-3500 fte, Epling 7118; Pend Oreille R. , Lyall; Pelky Cr., Bllison 92; 
Bloomer Cre, “pling and Putname 
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