412 DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. arbutus 



Fl. Brit. U,]). 443. Ejig. Bot.llA. M i c h. Fl. J.i^. ^49, 

 Pursh FLl.p. 283. Big. Bost. p. 101. Ejusd. Med. 

 Bot. 1. t. 6. 



A small trailing evergreen. Stem woody, often forming large 

 tufts or mats. Leaves alternate, petiolate, spreading or re- 

 curved, variable in breadth, obtuse, rigid, rounded or revolutc 

 on the margin, reticulRtcly veined beneath Flowers in a 

 small terminal clustered raceme, drooping. Segments of the 

 Calyx obtuse. Corolla rose-colour, pellucid at the base, hairy 

 internally ; segments of the border ovate, acute. Stamens 

 included ; anthers large, bifid. Berries red, persistent. Seeds 

 small, hard. 

 Hab In sandy pine woods and on mountains; not uncommon. 

 Plentiful in the pine barrens of New-Jersey. April— May. 



Common Bear-berry, 



278. GAULTHERIA. L. 



Calyx 5 -cleft, with 2 bracts at the base. Corolla 

 ovatt ; border small, 5-cleft, revolute. Filaments hairy. 

 Receptacle 10-toothetl. Capsule superior, 5-ceUed, 

 covered bv the calyx, which becomes a berry. Gen. pi. 

 749. Niitt, Ge?i. I. p. 262. Juss, p. 161. Lam. 

 III. t. 357. f. 2. Nat. Ord. ERicEiE Juss. 



Mountain-tea. — Partridge- Berry. 



1 . G.procurnbens L. : stem procumbent, with the branches 

 erect ; leaves obovaie, cuneate at the base, ciliate-denlicu- 

 late ; flowers few, terminal, nodding. W i 1 1 d. Spec. II. p. 

 616. Bot. Rep. \\G. Duham. Arh.l.i. l\^. Mich. 

 Fl. 1. p. 249. Pursh FL I. p. 283. Big. Bost. p. 101. 

 Ejusd. Med. Bot. II. p. 27. t. 22. Elliott S/c. I. p. 501. 

 Xutt. Gen. I. p. 262. Bart. Veg. Mat. Med. I. t. 15. 

 Anonyma pedunculis arcuatis. Cold. J^oveb. 98. 



Stem frutescent, creeping ; flowering branches erect, 3 — 4 inches 

 high, naked below. Leaves sempervirent, 4 — 5 on each 

 branch, crowded towards the summit, about an inch and a half 

 long, coriaceous ; serratures rather distant ; petiole very short. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, on short recurved pubescent pedi- 

 cels. Calyx 5-toothed, with 2 roundish bracts at the base re- 

 sembling an exteiior calyx ; segments broad, rather acute, pu- 

 bescent on the margin. Corolla ovate, obtusely pentangular, 

 white, hairy withi\) ; border 5-toothed, revolute. Stamens in- 

 cluded; Jilaments woolly, short, alternating with the teeth of 

 the receptacle ; anthers large, opening by 2 terminal pores, 

 each with bifid horns. Germen roundish, surrounded at the 

 base with a greenish lOluothed receptacle or torus ; style cy- 

 lindrical, tubular, longer than the stamens, the base immersed 



