SG Xrir (hurra and Species of 



Dr. Lindley describe the fruit as from 3 to 9-ccllcd, whereas 

 Ceratiola haa but two Btaraens, and a 2-celled, 2-seeded berry. 

 In that genus, however, the ovary is perhaps many-celled in its 

 young state, 01 rather is composed of many carpels, all of which 

 are abortive exc< pi two, for the short style is divided into nu- 

 merous stigmas, the number of which probably corresponds with 

 that of the cells or carpel-. In Corema the fruit is 3-celled. 



Jussieu referred to Ericeae tin 1 only genus of this order 

 known to him, bul without being satisfied with its station. Nut- 

 tall correctly remarks that Empetrese resemble Ericeae onh in 

 their leaves, though I cannot agree with my Learned friend in 



arding them as closely allied to Coniferae. Mr. Don, (with 

 whom Lindley seems now to agree) thinks the order holds an 

 intermediate place between Euphorbiaceae and Celastrinec. 



The nvw species here described has a strong resemblance 

 to the 11. album a native of Portugal, which D. Don, on ac- 

 count nf its 3-celled fruit, has separated from the other species of 

 the genus, under the name of Corema.*. It lias much the habit 

 of K. riihrum, WUld.i a native of the southern extremity of 

 South America. It diners, however, in its much narrower 

 1( aves, which are not woolly on the margin, hut merely fringed 

 with short glandular hairs, and in its nearly smooth branches. 

 Th' - of tin 1 flowef also are fewer iii number, and of uni- 



form texture and appearance. 



All the individuals of this species that I saw at Cedar 

 Bridge were probablj pistillate, bul I could discover none of 

 the fruit, either on the plants or in the sand about them. It 



may seem remarkahle that an evergreen shrub should so long 



have escaped detection, in a region which has been so much 

 explored b) botanists a- the sandy district of New Jersej ; but 

 man) of the plants of those pine barrens are extremely local, 



and there are >till large traels of the country south of ToiBfl 



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« »l t lu-. specie* is given in t lie Bolcnt iter for 



1836, i i • 



