THE DICTIONARY 
OF GARDENING, 
Gaultheria—continued. z 
- American continent. A few are found in Asia, five or 
six occur in Tasmania and New Zealand, and one is 
Japanese. Flowers white, pink, or red, axillary and 
terminal, racemose, rarely solitary ; corolla urceolate or 
campanulate, five-lobed; lobes spreading or recurved, 
imbricated. Leaves coriaceous, persistent, alternate, 
rarely opposite, often serrate or serrulate, penninerved. 
The hardy species thrive in a peat soil, and are readily 
increased by division or by layers. The greenhouse 
kinds should be treated like other greenhouse shrubs. 
The species enumerated below are those best known to 
cultivation. G. procumbens does well in the ordinary 
peat border; and G. Shallon is well adapted for growing 
on rockwork, or as edgings. 
G. antipoda (antipodal).* A. white or pink, small, axillary and 
solitary, or crowded re ag the ends of the branchlets. l very 
coriaceous, veined, shortly petioled, orbicular, oblong-lanceolate 
or linear-lanceolate, acute, obtuse, or acuminate. h. 6ft. New 
Zealand, 1820. Greenhouse. 
G. — (rusty-coloured).* fl. pink; racemes bracteate, 
erect, rising from the axils at the tops of the branches, the whole 
forming a panicle. June. J. ovate, acute, shining above, with 
serrulately scabrous margins, clothed with rusty tomentum 
beneath, as well as the racemes and flowers. A dwarf shrub, or 
small tree. Brazil, 1852. Greenhouse. (B. M. 4697.) 
x (very fragrant).* fl. secund, drooping, short] 
icelled ; racemes axillary, strict, erect, or Dokta — 
han the leaves, many-flowered, pubescent ; corolla white or pale 
pink, mouth small; lobes rounded. April. 7. very variable in 
shape, elliptic, ovate, obovate, or lanceolate, acute or acu- 
minate. Branches stout, ope angled, shining. Himalayas, 
1869. A handsome ore nt (quite hardy in some parts 
of Ireland). (B. M. 5984.) 
G. procumbens (procumbent).* Canada Tea; Creeping Winter- 
green. white, few, terminal, nutant, solitary. July. Berries 
red, edible, Z. obovate, acute at the base, finely and ciliately 
toothed. Stems procumbent; branches erect, naked at bottom, 
-but with crowded leaves at top. North America, 1762. Hardy. 
See Fig. 87. (B. M. 1966.) 
G. scabra (scabrous). fl., racemes axillary, simple; calyx and 
bracts clothed with glandular hairs. Summer. L DIa, 
acute, toothed, scabrous, reticulately veined beneath. Caraccas. 
Greenhouse. 
G. Shallon (Salal).* fl., corolla white, tinged with red, downy, 
urceolate, with a closed limb ; racemes secund, bracteate, downy. 
May. Berries ponie, globose, acute, fleshy. 1. ovate, sub- 
cordate, serrate, glabrous on both surfaces. North-west America, 
1826. Plant procumbent, hairy. The berries of this hardy species 
have a very eeable flavour, and make excellent tarts. See 
Fig. 88. (B. M. 2843; B. R. 1411.) 
GAURA (from gauros, superb; in reference to the 
elegance of the flowers of some of the species). ORD. 
Onagrariee. A genus comprising about twenty species 
of hardy annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, 
natives of the warmer parts of North America. Flowers 
in terminal, spiral racemes. Leaves alternate, simple. 
But few of the species are now to be found in cultiva- 
tion. A light soil suits Gauras best, and they can only 
be propagated by seed, which should be sown early in 
spring, in the open ground. As soon as the seedlings 
are large enough to handle, they should be transferred 
to their flowering quarters, and a slight covering 
afforded them during severe weather. 
G. biennis (biennial). M. irregular; petals at first white, then 
reddish, obovate, ascending, spreading, naked; sepals purple 
at the August to October. J. lanceolate-oblong, acute. 
denticulated. A. dlt to ott 4762, (B. M. 389.) j : 
G. Lindheimeri (Lindheimer’s).* M. rose-white, produced in 
1500) ka Spikes throughout the summer. h. 4ft. Texas, 
. nual or perennial. An elegant slender branching species 
for masses or mixed borders, fig. 89.. (L. & P. F. G. 3, 127.) 
Fig 
G. parvitors small-flowered . yellow, minute, crowded; 
= ew — „August, È obiong, “acuminated, remotely 
' young, A. iik to lift. 183, Annual Gs’ ar 806) s Taen 
GAUSSIA (a commemorative name). ORD. Palmee. 
— of ji 5 three — of crnamental, medium- 
sized, unarme ms, with pinnatisect leaves, from the 
West Indian Islands. They are nearly allied to Cha- 
medorea (which see for culture). `G. @hiesbreghtii 
(Syns. Chamedorea Ghiesbreghtit and Oreodoxa ventri- 
cosa) and G. princeps are in cultivation in this country. 
GAYLUSSACIA (named in honour of N. F. Gay- 
Lussac, a celebrated French chemist, 1778-1850). Syn. 
Lussacia. ORD. Vacciniacee. A genus of about forty 
species of very ornamental, but little grown, green- 
house or half-hardy evergreen or deciduous shrubs, 
natives of tropical America. Flowers white or scariet, 
small, disposed in few or many-flowered axillary racemes. 
Leaves alternate, persistent, rarely membranaceous, and 
deciduous, entire or serrate, terminated by a hard spine. 
For culture, see Vaccinium. 
G. dumosa (low). jl. white to rose-red; corolla bell-shaped; 
bracts leaf-like, as long as the pedicels; racemes elongated. 
June. fr. black. l. deciduous, entire, obovate-oblong, mucronate, 
green on both sides, rather thick and shining when old, h. lft. 
to 5ft. North America, 1774, (B. M. 1106, under name of Vac- 
cinium dumosum, 
G. frondosa — fl. greenish-purple ; corolla globular, bell- 
shaped; bracts deciduous, shorter than the slender drooping 
cels ; racemes slender, loose. May and June, „fr. dark blue, 
with a white bloom, sweet and edible. J. deciduous, entire, 
obovate-oblong, blunt, pale, glaucous beneath. Branches slender 
and divergent. h. 3ft. to 6ft. North America, 1761. (A. B. R. 140, 
under name of Vaccinium frondosum.) 
G. pseudo-vaccinium (false Vaccinium). A. crimson ; racemes 
axillary, erect, secund, bracteate. May. J. elliptic-lanceolate, 
obsoletely serrated towards the top, h. lft. to 2ft. Brazil, 
1843. Greenhouse. Syn. Vaccinium brasiliensis. 
G. resinosa (resinous).* jl. reddish ; corolla ovoid-conical, or at 
length cylindrical, with an open mouth; bracts and bractlets 
small and deciduous; racemes short, clustered, one-sided; pe- 
dicels as long as the flowers. May and June. fr. black, without 
. bloom, pleasant (very rarely white). Z. deciduous, entire, oval, 
oblong-ovate, or oblong, thickly clothed and (as well as the 
flowers) at first clammy with resinous globules. R. 1ft. to Sft. 
North America (in woodlands and swamps), 1782. (B. M. 1288, 
under name of Vacciniym resinosum.) 
Fig. 89. FLOWERING BRANCH OF GAURA LINDHEIMERI 
