c J Nt to (i< in r<i a in! Sjh cies oj 



Sempervirent, procumbent* and much branched, spreading in a cir- 

 cular manner; the branehes Bubverticillate and fasciculate, ascending at 

 the extremity, invested with a loose gray cuticle, which separates and 

 exposes a rcrldish bark. Leaves coriaceous, ahout five lines long, and 

 scarcely half an inch in breadth, slightly pointed at the tip, crowded, 

 particularly towards tin summit of the branches, mostly somewhat ver- 

 tieillatc, hut often opposite, and sometimes alternate; the upper surface 

 bright green, under a lens, (particularly in the young leaves) appearing 

 red with minute short glandular hairs, when old nearly smooth; 

 the true margin remarkably revolute ; the edges nearly meeting on the 

 underside; apparent margin minutely denticulate; petiole very short 

 but distinct, arii< ulnted to the brandies. Male Fi.owkrs sessile in the 

 axils of the leaves al the summit of the last year's branches. Perianth 

 composed of 5 or 6 oblong, or obovate-oblong, smoothish scales, the inner 

 ones scarcely petaloid, forming an oval bud, from the apex of which the 

 stamens protrude. Stamens mostly 3, sometimes 1 ; filaments 2 lines 

 long, slender, smooth, inserted into a minute receptacle ; anthers 

 roundish, two-celled, opening longitudinally on the outside, no rudiment 

 of an ovary. — Fkrtile Flowers inconspicuous, collected in very 

 small heads al the summit of the branches. Each head composed of 

 !<• Lo 1;.' Bowers, surrounded with a number of short brownish concave 

 bracts. Scales pf the perianth ahout f>, obovatc, obtuse: the inner ones 

 •mailer, tinged rose-color, nearly smooth. Ovary obovatc, 3 — 4-cclled; 

 each cell containing a single ovule; style three times as long as the 

 ovary, purplish red, cleft below the middle; lha divisions somewhat 

 spreading. 



Hai!. — Sandy fields in pine barrens near Cedar Bridge, 



Monmouth County, New. Jersey! Also near Pemberfon Mills, 

 about ten miles from Burlington, in the same state, S. //'. 

 Conrad, Esq* ■' 



Obs. — Ihis very interesting addition to die botany of die 

 United States, was first discovered by the late Solomon W. 

 Conrad, Esq. Professor of Botany in the Dniversirj of Penn- 

 sylvania, a short time before his death, but the infirm stale of 



his health did not permit him to examine the plant. My friend 



Dr. Pickering, of Philadelphia, supplied me with some of 

 Mi. Coprad's specimens, on which were a few male flowers, 



and afterwards the same plant without fructification, was 



