No. 40. 



SOS 



obovate, mucronate. Flowers few, terminal, with 



drooping peduncles. 



DESCRIPTION — Root horizontal, creeping, slen- 

 der, yellowish, with few fibres. Stems several, up- 

 right, few inches high, slender, base naked with a 

 few scales. Leaves terminal, nearly fasciculate, un- 

 equal, few, three to five on short petiols, scattered, 

 coriaceous oval or oboval, pale beneath, acute, with 

 some short mucronate teeth. 



Flowers few, terminal, subaxillary, on drooping 

 downy peduncles- Calix double, external bifid, scaly, 

 interior campanulate five cleft, changing afterwards 

 into the fleshy covering of the fruit. Corolla ovate, 

 white or flesh colored, wath five teeth. Ten Stamina 

 of a rose color, filaments plumose, bent on the base of 

 the corolla, alterne with ten small scales, anthers oh- 



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long orange color, bilobe two-horned, dehiscent out- 

 side, pollen white. Germ round, depressed resting 

 on a ring which bears the ten scales or teeth. Style 

 erect, filiform. Stigma obtuse, moist. The fruit is 

 a small five celled fire valved and many seeded cap- 

 sul, inclosed within the fleshy calix, wliich assumes 

 the appeai-ance of a round scarlet perforated berry, of 



the size of a pea. 



Locality — Onhills and mountains, in shady woods. 



Pine woods, roclky and sandy soils, from Maine to 

 Carolina and Indiana ; unknown in rich alluvial or 



limestone plains. 



HISTORY— Dedicated to Dr. Gautier of Canada 

 by Kalm, wrongly mispelt GaulUUria and Gualthe- 

 ria by many ; but errors ought not to he copied for- 



