GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS. 
Partridge Berry. 
PLATE XXII. 
D ines is no soil so inhospitable, that it does 
not afford the means of sustenance and erowth to 
some vegetable tenant. The most arid and penu- 
rious spots of earth not only give support to a 
variety of plants, but they are even selected by 
certain species, which make them their perma- 
nent residence, and thrive better in the midst of 
poverty and drought than they could in the most 
fertile and luxuriant situations. The Gaultheria 
procumbens is one of those hardy and abstemious 
plents, which are better satisfied with the clear air 
of the mountains, than with a deep or mellow 
soil. It is found growing in large beds under the 
shade of shrubs and trees upon elevated tracts of 
ground, or upon the sand and gravel of the driest 
forests. Its bright evergreen leayes seem adapt- 
