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in the germen ; stigma 5-cleft. Cafisule obtusely pentangu- 

 lar, umbilicate, covered by the coiinivent persistent calyx, 

 which becomes red and succulent, resembling a berry ; valves 

 septiferous in the middle. Seeds 15 — 20 in each cell, attached 

 by one extremity to tlie 5 lobes of the central axis, ovate, con\- 

 pressed, shining. 

 Hab. In wet or dry woods, mostly under the shade of ever- 

 greens. July — August. Mountain-tea. 

 The whole plant has a pleasant aromatic flavour, somewhat 

 resembling that of Betui.a nigra. It is vulgarly called Win- 

 ter-green. 



* Flotutm octandrous ; calyx i-tootfied ; corolla subcamfianulate, 

 4,-cleft ; cafisule ? aubglobose, As-celled^ adhering to the calyx 

 below the middle. Lasierpa*. 



2. G,? hispidula MuhL: stem filiform, creeping, his- 

 pid ; leaves ovate, acute ; flowers solitary, axillary. Muhl, 

 Cat. p. 44. G. serpyllifolia Pu rsh Ft. I. p. 283. t. 13. 

 y ACCiNivm hispidnlum Kalm. Willd. Spec. 11. p. 355. 

 M i c fu Fl. I. p. 228. t. 23. Arbutus Jiliformis L a m. Eiic, 

 I, p. 228. OxYcoccus hispidulus Pers. Si/n. I. p. 419. 

 J{ utt. Gen. I. p. 251. 



A creeping evergreen, with long filiform stems, covered with 

 ferruginous hairs. Leaves about one-third of an inch long, 

 acute at each extremity, covered, like the stem, with hispid 

 hairs. Flowers solitary, on short recurved pedicels. Bracts 

 2, resembling an exterior calyx, ovate, acute. Calyx inferior, 

 of 4 ovate acuminate teeth, adhering to the capsule below the 

 middle, not becoming succulent? Corolla very small, white, 

 short-campanulate ; border erect? Stamens included ; ^/o- 

 ments broad ; anthers naked at the base. Cafisule ? or dry 

 berry, white, many-seeded; dissepiments membranaceous. 

 Seeds attached to central receptacles. 



Hab. In sphagnous swamps abounding with evergreens. In the 

 cedar swamp near New-Durham, New-Jersey. On the Cats- 

 kill Mountains, New-York. Knevels. Plainfield, Massa- 

 chusetts Porter. Near Boston. Oa kes. On the White 

 Hills of New-Hampshire. Bigelow. April 



I much regret not having a full description of this plant 

 taken from living specimens, it being very probable that it will 

 constitute a new genus. It has been referred to four distinct 

 genera, from each of wliich it differs in lieveral important cha- 

 racters. It most resembles Oxycocous and Gaultheria; 

 but differs from the former, in having a bibracteate inferior 

 calyx, which, however, appears to adhere to the base of the 

 fruit, &c. ; and from the latter in being octandrous, as well as 

 in habit. The fruit I have not examined in a recent state, but 

 it appears to be a dry berry. In Mi c haux's figure, which 

 is otheiwise excellent, the fruit is represented as crowned 

 with the calyx ; but the calyx was certainly inferior in the 



