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3 Tribe.—ANDROMEDEZ. 
GENUS.—GAULTHERIA,* KALM. 
SEX. SYST.—DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
GAULTHERIA. 
WINTERGREEN. 
SYN.—GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS, LINN.; GAULTHERIA HUMILIS, 
SALISB.; GAUTIERA REPENS, RAF. 
COM. NAMES.—CREEPING WINTERGREEN, CHECKER BERRY, PAR- 
TRIDGE BERRY, BOX BERRY, SPICE BERRY, TEA BERRY, MOUN- 
TAIN TEA,; JERSEY THA, GROUND HOLLY, AROMATIC WINTER- 
GREEN, GROUSE BERRY, DEW BERRY, RED BERRY, HILL BERRY; 
(FR.) THE du CANADA; (GER.) BERGTHEE. 
A TINCTURE OF THE FRESH LEAVES OF GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS, LINN. 
Description.—This well-known perennial, spicy-aromatic evergreen grows, in 
its upright height, from 3 to 5 inches, the true stem creeping, generally below the 
surface, and resembling a root. The flowering branches upright, stem-like, naked 
below and leafy at the top. caves alternate, upom very short petioles, obovate 
or oval, with a wedge-shaped base and very finely serrate edges; thick, smooth 
and shining. /xflorescence axillary ; flowers usually single, sometimes more, upon 
nodding, two-bracted pedicels from the base of the upper petioles. Calyx five- 
lobed. Corolla inflated-cylindrical or pear-shaped, hairy within, with five small 
revolute teeth. S/amens ten, included within the tube of the corolla; laments 
flat, hairy, curving toward the style; azthers large, introrse, two-celled, with two 
awns at the apex of each cell, opening by a terminal pore. Ovary smooth, five- 
lobed, five-celled, depressed, situated upon an hypogynous disk ; f/acenda axillary ; 
style simple, cylindrical, thick, longer than the stamens; s/gma blunt, apparently 
entire, but in reality faintly marked into five lobes. /yuz¢ a depressed, five-lobed, 
-celled and -valved, many-seeded pod, invested, when ripe, by the now thickened 
and fleshy calyx, thus forming a globose, bright red, edible berry, having a depres- _ 
sion at its apex, surrounded by crenations formed of the thickened calyx teeth. — 
Seeds situated upon the axis, minute, very irregularly shaped, the average being 
rounded-triangular, with concave or convex surfaces ; esta light-yellow, with fine 
hexagonal reticulation. A description of the Ericaceze will be found under Uva- 
Ure, | 100. 
* Dedicated to Dr. Gaultier of hoa The Fic of host ‘name, after passing ere betanical works __ hope 
as “Gaulthier” and “Gautier,” was eri, 5 settled by the records of Quebec, searched oy Prof, Brunet, as “ Gaultier.” patie 
( Gray.) Bee ee 
t The ieeree of this gee formed one of the substitutes for Thea ‘Chinewsis during the Revolutionary V War, ee 
