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ERICACE-ZE. (HEATH FAMILY.) 
turns fleshy, so as to appear as a globular red berry! — Scarcely 
shrubby plants, with alternate evergreen leaves and axillary 
(nearly white) flowers : pedicels with 2 bractlets. (Dedicated by 
Kalra to “ Dr. Gaulthier,” of Quebec ; Linn. Amcen. Acad. 3, p. 
15; very likely the same person as the M. Gautier who contrib¬ 
uted a paper on the Sugar Maple to the Memoirs of the French 
Academy ; but it is too late to alter the original orthography of the 
genus.) 
1 G. procumbens, L. (Creeping Wintergreen.) Stems 
slender and extensively creeping on or below the surface ; the flower¬ 
ing branches ascending, simple, leafy at the summit (3'-5' high); 
leaves obovate or oval, obscurely serrate, shining above; flowers 
few, mostly single in the axils, nodding. — Cool damp woods, mostly 
in the shade of evergreens. May-July. — The bright red berries 
(formed of the calyx) and the foliage have the well-known spicy- 
aromatic flavor of the Sweet Birch. In the interior of the country it 
is everywhere called fVintergreen , or sometimes Tea-berry. East¬ 
ward it is called Chequer-berry or Partridge-berry (names also applied 
to Mitchella, the latter especially so), and Box-berry. 
EPIGJEA, L. Ground Laurel. Trailing Arbutus. 
Corolla salver-form, the tube as long as the ovate-lanceolate 
pointed and scale-like nearly distinct sepals. Stamens 10, with 
filiform filaments : anthers oblong, awnless, opening lengthwise. 
Pod depressed-globular, 5-lobed, 5 -celled, many-seeded. Pros¬ 
trate or trailing scarcely shrubby plants, bristly with rusty hairs, 
with evergreen and reticulated rounded alternate leaves, and rose- 
colored flowers in small axillary clusters subtended by scaly bracts. 
(Name composed of M, upon, and tf, the earth, from the trading 
growth.) 
F repens, L. (Mayflower) Leaves roundish-oval and 
heart-shaped, on slender petioles; tube of the corolla hairy inside. — 
Sandy woods or sometimes in rocky soil, especially in the shade ° 
pines, common in many places: flowers appearing in early spring, 
and exhaling a rich spicy fragrance. 
ANDROMEDA, L. Andromeda. 
CoroHa various in form, 5- (rarely 4-) toothed. Stamens 10, 
rarely 8, included: anthers awned or awnless, short, opening b) 
terminal pores or slits. Pod 5-celled, many-seeded. — Shrubs, 
