1783 



* EMPETRUM iiibium. 

 Red Crowberry. 



DICECIA TRI ANURIA. 



Nat. ord. Empetre^e, Nuttall. (Introduction to the Natural System 

 of Botany , p. 109.) 



EMPETRUM, L. $ ^'^wgtw^e imbricatae, quarum tres interiores peta- 

 loideae. Stamina 3. $ SrjuamcB maris. Ovarium 6-9-loculare ; ovulis 

 solitarils ascendentibus. Stigma sessile, radiis plicatis tot quot loculi. Peri- 

 carpium baccatum, seminibus osseis. 



E. rubrum ; ramulis folilsque margine lanulosis. 



E. rubrum. Willd. sp. pi 4. 713. 



SufFrutex sempervirens, virgatus, procumbens, visu subcinereo. Rami 

 purpurascentes, graciles, ramosi, layid laxd intricaid vestiti. Folia linearia, 

 3 lineas longa^ petiolata, marginibus veris 7'ejiexis in medio dorsi attingenti- 

 bus, spuriis land ciliatis. Flores axillares, solitarii ; masculi e squamis con- 

 stantes imbricatis, circiter novem, quarum 3 interiores corollce formam in- 

 duunt et sub aspectu pctalorum trium linearium cuyieatorum, fusco-purpu- 

 reorum, apice refiexorum se expandunt. Stamina 3 ; antheris oblongis 

 2-locularibus in Jilamenta debilia vacillantibus. Rudimentum ovarii. Foe- 

 minei maribus sunt similes, sed omnino anandri. Ovarium sphcericum, 9- 

 loculare. Stigma sessile, fusco-pmpureum, radiis novem plicatis stellam 

 referentibus. 



A hardy evergreen shrub, lately introduced by Mr. Low 

 of the Clapton Nursery, under the name of *'the Cranberry 

 of Staten Island." 



It is a plant that is found all over the Southern point of 

 South America, growing with Pernettia mucronata along the 

 sandy coast, spreading over the stones, but especially 

 thriving at the back of the low sandhills, by which the shore 



amons. 



* From tv in, and irerpoc a stone, in allusion to the rocky places it grows 



