1126 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART Ili. 
# 2. G. Sua’LLon Pursh. The Shallon Gaultheria. 
Identification. Pursh F\. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 283. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 839. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
Engravings. Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. fig. ; Hook. Bot. Mag., t. 2843.; Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1411. ; 
Lodd. Bot. Cab., t.1372.; and our fiz. 926. 
Spec. Char., §c. Procumbent, hairy on the stems. Leaves ovate, subcordate, ser- 
rated, glabrous on both surfaces. Racemes secund, bracteate, clothed with 
rusty down. Branches warted, clothed 


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with rusty down when young. Leaves OS) 
broad, abruptly acuminated. Pedicels <a 



scaly. Corolla white, tinged with red, ae: f 2; PA iskd 
downy, urceolate, with a closed limb. i &: he 
Berries globose, acute, fleshy, purple. 
This plant grows in the shade of close pine % 
forests, where hardly any thing else will = 
thrive, which makes it a very desirable 
shrub for plantations. The berries of 
the shallon are much esteemed by the 
natives, on account of their agreeable 926 
flavour. (Don’s Mill., iii. p. 837.) It was introduced in 1826, and is a 
native of North America, on the Falls of the Columbia, and near the 
Western Ocean. In British gardens, this plant is as hardy as if it were 
indigenous. It grows to the height of 2 ft. or 3 ft. in sandy peat, or even 
in sandy loam, in 3 or 4 years producing abundance of fruit, which forms 
excellent food for partridges, and may be used in tarts. In the North 
of England, and in Scotland, it has already been planted as undergrowth 
in artificial plantations, and in belts, clumps, and thickets in parks, for the 
sake of the shelter and food which it affords for game. It thrives in the 
immediate vicinity of London, growing luxuriantly in the Hackney ar- 
boretum. 
App. i. Half-hardy Species of Gaultheria 
G. fragrantissima Wall. (Don’s Mill., 3. 840.), G. frigrans D. Don, A’rbutus daurifdlia Hamil., is 
an evergreen shrub, a native of Nepal, at Narainhetty; with leaves coriaceous, reticulately veined ; 
from 2 in. to 4in. long; with corollas oblong, silky, pale red, and very sweet-scented. It was intro- 
duced in 1824, but we have not seen a plant. 
App. ii. Hardy and half-hardy Species of Gaultheéria, not yet 
entroduced, 
G. nummularidides D. Don Prod. Fl. Nep., p.150., Don’s Mill., 3. p.839., is a native of the alps 
of Nepal, where it forms a much-branched procumbent shrub, with filiform branches, cordate leaves, 
and small flowers, on very short axillary pedicels, 
G. ciliata Cham. et Schlecht. in Linnea, 5. p. 126., Don’s Mill., 3. p.839., is a glabrous shrub, 
with coriaceous lanceolate leaves, sharply serrated; a native of Mexico, on Mount Orizaba, along 
with Solanum tuberjsum. The leaves are half an inch long, the flowers white, and the berries 
black. 
Several other species are described in Don’s Millev, as natives of different parts of South America 
and Nepal; and as requiring the green-house or stove. 
Genus XVII. 
a 
Borex 
EPIGH‘A LZ. Tue Epricma. Lin. Syst. Decdndria Monogynia. 
meee a Gen., No. 550.; Schreb. Gen., No, 240.; Nutt. Gen. Amer., 1. p. 269.; Don’s 
ill., 3. p. 841. 
Synonymes. Memécylum Mich. Gen., 13.; May Flower, Nova Scotia. 
rgis seca From epi, upon, and gaia, the earth; the plant creeps upon the surface of the 
earth. 
Description. Creeping, tufted, evergreen shrubs, with fragrant flowers in 
dense, axillary, and terminal racemes; natives of North America. 
