Class X.— DECANDRIA. 



Order I.— MONOGYNIA. 



f Flowers monopetalous, 



377. ARBUTUS. L. (Bear-berry, &c.) 



Calix minute, 5-parted. Corolla ovate, dia- 

 phanous at the base, border small, 5-cleft, revo- 

 lute. Berry superior, 5-celled^ cells 1, or many- 

 seeded. 



SufTrutlcose or shrubby; leaves alternate; flowers axil- 

 lary or terminal subracemose 



SpKcics. 1. A. lanrifolia. 2. JMenziesii, Ph. 3. tomen- 

 iosa. Ph These 3 species are indigenous to the North 

 ^Vest coast of America only. 4. alpiria. 5. Uva ttrsi. 



A small and widely dispersed genus, tiiere being 4 spe- 

 cies in Europe, one of them also indigenous to Candiaand 

 mount Ida, 2 others are common to North America, there 

 is likewise 1 in the Levant, 1 in Acadia, 1 in some unknown 

 part of America, 1 in Peru and 2 in 1 ierra del Fuego. 



8. GAULTHERIA. L. (Mountain-tea, Par- 

 tridge-berry, &c.) 



Ca^icT 5-cleft, or 5-toothed, bibracteate at the 

 base. Corolla ovate, border partly 5-cIeft, revo- 

 lute. Filaments of the stamina hirsute; Torus 

 or receptacle 10-toothed. Capsule superior, 5- 

 celled, invested by the calix ^\hich becomes a 

 berry. 



Very low and sufiTruticose; leaves alternate or facicula- 

 ted, sempervirent; fiowers axillary, solitary or racemose. 



Species. 1. G. procumbens. Hab. Usually in the shade 

 of other evergreens, particularly Xa^mms and Rhododen- 

 drons from Canada to Georgia. Sometimes used as an 

 indifferent substitute for tea. Obs. Stem procumbent, 

 repent, suffruticosc; flowering surculi very short, erect 

 and pubescent; leaves of each shoot 4 or 5, crowded at 

 the sumn.it, obovate, ciliate-denticulate. ^'lowers axil- 

 lary and solitary, nutant. Calix 5-toothed, bibracteate at 

 the base. Corolla ovate, 5 angled, apex 5-toothed, inter«„ 



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