CHAP. LXIX. 



£RICA'CE.i;. BRYA'NTHUS. 



1171 



99-i 



«- 3. O. ere'ctus Pufsh. The erect Cranberry. 



Identification Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 264. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 858. 

 Synonyme. racciniuin erythrocarpum Mickx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 227., 



and Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Engravings. Wats. Dend,_Brit., t. 13. ; and our fig. 994. 



Spec. Char., 4"c- Leaves oval, acuminated, serrulated, and 

 ciliated. Pedicels axillary. Corolla, before expansion, 

 long and conical, at length revolute. Stem erect. 

 Branches flexuous. Leaves membranous, somewhat 

 hairy. Flovi'ers 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 ft. ; 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. 



App. I. Genera of Y^ricdcece, of "which it appears doubtful if any 

 hardy ligneous Species have yet been introduced. 



Genus I. 



I 



BRYA'NTHUS Gmel 



! <at- - 1 



The Brvanthus. Lbi. St/st. 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- 

 p. 8,53. 



Synonymes. Andrumeda sp. Lin. ; Menzids/a Swartz and Pursh ; jErlca sp. Tkunb. 



Derivation. From bryo7i, a moss, and autlios, a flower. 



Gen. Char.,^c. Cii/ya- J.leaved, imbricate. Coro/to deeply 5-parted, spreading. S/(T»wens 10, shorter 

 than the corolla. Filaments flattened, glabrous. Cells of antlios short, awned behind. Stigma 

 obtuse. Capsule 5-celled. — Trailing evergreen shrubs, natives of Asia and North America. 



!t- 1. B. Gme^lin/ D. Don. Gmelin's Bryanthus. 



995 



Identification. D. Don in Kdinb. Phil. Journ., 17. p. 160. ; Don's Mill., 



3. p. 833. 

 Synony?nes. Menzifes/« bry&ntha Sii'nrtz in Lin. Trans., 10. p. 378. t. 30. 



f. b. ; Andr6merirt bry&ntha Lin. Mant., 2.38., Pall. Fl. Moss., p. 57. 



t. 74. f. 1. ; i^rica bryantha Tliiinb. Diss., No. 8., Willd. Sp., 2. p. 



386. ; Bryanthus repens ierpyllifblia fibre rbseo Gmel. Sib., 4. p. 133. 



t. 57. f. 

 Engravings. Swartz in Lin. Trans., 10. p. 378. t. 30. f. b. ; Pall. Fl. 



Koss., p. 57. t. 74. f. 1. ; Gmel. Sib., 4. p. 133. t. 57. f. 3. ; and our fig 995. 



Spec. Char., SfC. Branchlets pruinose. Leaves with denticulated 

 margins. Peduncles glandular, many-flowered. Anthers mutic. 

 Style filiform. Flowers red. {Do7i's Mill., 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 thc'Sea 

 of Ochotsk, in low mossy situations, also in Kamtschatka, and Beh- 

 ring's Island, being the only ornament of the rocks which compose the 

 greater part of its surface ; sometimes also he found it along with 

 £'mpetrum and mosses, in boggy places. This very elegant little 

 plant would form a most desirable introduction for the British erice- 

 tuni, from its close general resemblance to the genus £rica. 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 mediinii 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 

 because the articles they are entitled to ask in return, are the more likely to be new 

 them. 



4 II 3 



the better ; 

 and rare to 



