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5. EPIGJEA, L. Ground Laurel. Tkailing Aiibdtcs. 



Corolla salver-form ; the tube hairy inside, as long as the ovate-lanceolate 

 Dointed and scale-like nearly distinct sepals. Stamens 10, with slender fila- 

 ments : anthers oblong, awnless, opening lengthwise. Pod depressed-glol nlar, 

 5-lobed, 5-celled, many-seeded. — A prostrate or trailing scarcely shrubby plant, 

 bristly with rusty hairs, with evergreen and reticulated rounded and heart-shaped 

 alternate leaves, on slender petioles, and with rose-colored flowers in small axil- 

 lary clusters, from scaly bracts. (Name composed of or/, upon, and yi), the earth, 

 from the trailing growth.) 



1. E. repens, L. — Sandy woods, or sometimes in rocky soil, especially 

 in the shade of pines, common in many places. — Flowers appearing in early 

 spring, and exhaling a rich spicy fragrance. In New England called May- 

 flower. 



6. GA1JLTHEBIA, Kalm. Aromatic Wintergreen. 



Corolla cylindrical-ovoid or a little urn-shaped, 5 toothed. Stamens 10, in- 

 cluded : anther-cells each 2-awned at the summit, opening by a terminal pore. 

 Pod depressed, 5-lobed, 5-celled, 5-valved, many-seeded, enclosed when rip i by 

 the calyx, which thickens and turns fleshy, so as to appear as a globular red 

 berry! — Shrubs, or almost herbaceous plants, with alternate evergreen leaves 

 and axillary (nearly white) flowers: pedicels with 2 bractlcts. (Dedicated by 

 Kalm to "Dr. Gaulthier," of Quebec; Linn. Anna,. Acad. 3, p. 15 ; very likely 

 the same person as the M. Gautier who contributed 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. prociimbeiis, L. (Creeping Wiwtergreen.) Stems slender 

 and extensively creeping on or below the surface ; the flowering branches as- 

 cending, leafy at the summit (."'-5' high) ; leaves obovate or oval, obscurely 

 sen-ate; flowers few, mostly single in the axils, noddin::. — Cool damp woods, 

 mostlr in the shade of evergreens: common northward, and southward along 

 the Alleghanies. 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 called Wintenjreen, or sometimes Te&herry. East- 

 ward it is called Checkcrberry or Partridge-berry (names also applied to Mitchella, 

 the latter especially so), and Boxberry. 



7. LEUC6THOE, Don. Leucotiioe. 



Calyx of 5 nearly distinct sepals, imbricated in the bud, not enlarged nor 

 fleshy in fruit. Corolla ovate or cylindraceous, 5-toothed. Stamens 10: an- 

 thers naked, or the cells with 1 or 2 erect awns at the apex, opening by a pore. 

 Pod depressed, more or less 5-lobed, 5-celled, 5-valved, the sutures not thick- 

 ened ; valves entire : the many-seeded placentas borne on the summit of the short 

 columella, mostly pendulous. — Shrubs, with petioled and serrulate leaves, and 

 white scaly-bracted flowers crowded in axillary or terminal spiked racemos. 

 (A mythological name.) 



