CHAP, LXIX. ERICA‘CER. BRYA/NTHUS. Pp7a 
« 3. O. ERE’cTUS Pursh. The erect Cranberry. 
Identification _Pursh FJ. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 264. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 858. fi 
Synonyme. Vaccinium erythrocdarpum Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1, p. 227., ‘ 
and Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 
Engravings. Wats, Dend, Brit., t. 13.; and our fig. 994. 
Spec. Char., Sc. Leaves oval, acuminated, serrulated, and a) 
ciliated. Pedicels axillary. Corolla, before expansion, (4% 
long and conical, at length revolute. Stem erect. 
Branches flexuous. Leaves membranous, somewhat 
hairy. Flowers red. Berries scarlet (Watson says 
black), quite transparent, and of an exquisite taste. 
Very different in habit from the other species. (Don’s 
Mill., iii. p. 858.) It is a native of Virginia and Caro- 
_ lina, on lofty mountains, where it grows to the height of 
2 {t.; flowering in May and June. It was introduced in 
1806; and there are plants at Messrs. Loddiges’s, and 
in other nurseries. It is rather remarkable, that this 
species has not yet been cultivated in the kitchen- 
garden, as a fruit shrub. 
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App. I. Genera of Ericdcee, of which it appears doubtful if any 
. hardy ligneous Species have yet been introduced. 
Genus I. 
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BRYA’NTHUS Gmel. Tur Bryantuus. Lin. Syst. Decandria Mono- 
gynia. 
Identification. Gmel. Sib., 4. p. 133. t. 57. f. 3. ; Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ,, 17. p. 160. ; Don’s Mill., 3- 
833. 
Synonymes. Andrémeda sp. Lin. ; Menziés¢a Swartz and Pursh ; Erica sp. Thunb. 
Derivation. From bryon, a moss, and anthos, a flower. 
Gen. Char., &c. Calyx 5-leaved, imbricate. Corolla deeply 5-parted, spreading. Stamens 10, shorter 
than the corolla. Filaments flattened, glabrous. Cells of anthers short, awned behind. Stigma 
obtuse. Capsule 5-celled.—Trailing evergreen shrubs, natives of Asia and North America. 
& 1. B. Gme‘tinz D. Don. Gmelin’s Bryanthus. 
Identification. D. Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ., 17. p.160.; Don’s Mill., 995 y 
3. p. 833. 
Synonymes. Menziesta bryantha Swartz in Lin. Trans., 10. p. 378. t. 30. 
f.b.; Andrémeda bryantha Lin. Mant., 238., Pall. Fl. Ross., p. 57. 
t. 74. f. 1.; Hrica bryantha Thunb. Diss., No. 8., Willd. Sp., 2. p. 
386.; Bryanthus répens serpyllifolia flbre dseo Gmel. Sib., 4. p. 133. 
578 
Engravings. Swartz in Lin. Trans., 10. p. 378. t. 30. f. b.; Pall. Fl. 
Ross., p. 57. t. 74. f. 1.3; Gmel. Sib., 4. p, 133. t. 57. #. 3. ; and our fig. 995. 
Spec. Char., &c. Branchlets pruinose. Leaves with denticulated 
margins. Peduncles glandular, many-flowered. Anthers mutic. 
Style filiform. Flowers red, (Don’s Miil., iii. p. 833.) A trailing shrub, 
a native of Kamtschatka, about Port Ochotsk, and of Behring’s 
Island, where it grows in thick masses covering a great extent of sur- 
face, like wild thyme. Pallas says that he first observed it near the*Sea 
of Ochotsk, in low mossy situations, also in Kamtschatka, and Beh- iy 
ring’s Island, being the only ornament of the rocks which compose the \i\WV/ 
greater part of its surface; sometimes also he found it along with 
E’mpetrum and mosses, in boggy places. This very elegant little 
plant would form a most desirable introduction for the British erice- 
tum, from its close general resemblance to the genus Erica. We 
have been informed that it is already in the Glasgow Botanic 
Garden, and the climate of that part of Britain is doubtless better 
adapted to it than that of London ; but if we have been misinformed, 
and it is not yet introduced, there could not be much difficulty in pro- 
curing it through the medium of the Botanic Garden of St. Peters- 
burg or of Upsal. The directors of these gardens, and indeed the 
directors of botanic gardens generally, are always happy when they 
can supply any wants of their friends: and the greater the distance of those friends the better ; 
because the articles they are entitled to ask in return, are the more likely to be new and rare to 
them. 
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