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Cedar bridge ; but always without flowers and 

 eeeds. It must blossom in winte^ or very sel- 

 dom. Torrey only saw the flowers dry and in 

 a garden and omits to state the time, his ac- 

 count is however very good. It is a small ever- 

 green shrub 5 to 10 inches high, much branch- 

 ed and growing in patches like the Hudsonia. 



596. Ceratiola ericoides Mx. and all bo- 

 tanists, Hooker hot. mag. *2758. From Caro- 

 lina to Florida, well described by Michaux, El- 

 liot, Hooker &c. I have many specimens, in 

 which the leaves are mostly fallen as in the dry 

 Heaths. 



597. Empetrum purpureum Raf. E. nigrum 

 Mx, and all our Amer. botanists, not of Lin. 

 and European hot. E. rubrum Lapilaye fl. — 

 Procumbent smooth, leaves scattered crowded, 

 lower patent, upper imbricate, oblong linear 

 sessile uninerve obtuse flat on both sides, thick- 

 ish, berries purple, sessile equal to the leaves 

 and costate — in Canada, Labrador, Newfound- 

 land, White Mountains, Lake Superior, near 

 the rocky shores. Michaux who first noticed 

 this blended it with the boreal sp. of Europe, 

 and has been followed by all our subservient 

 botanists except Lapilaye who has blended it 

 with E. rubrum of Austral America in his New- 

 foundland Flora. My specimen is from La- 

 brador and has red berries strikingly like those 

 of Phytolaca ! Those of our Botanists who saw 

 the berries are few, they mostly copy Michaux! 

 is there a sp. in boreal America with black ber- 

 ries ? My sp. is perfectly distinct, the branch- 

 es are terete smooth but sulcate among the 

 leaves, these are only 2 or 3 lines long, with a 

 single nerve beneath not at all revolute and 

 hardly any verticillate ; the flowers and berries 



