lent pulp, and a crustaceous, thin, brittle, black shining shell. It 

 is a native of Lapland, c. flowering in January, in mild seasons. 



Martyn remarks, that there are two principal varieties; one with 

 a white flower, succeeded by yellow berries; the other with peach- 

 coloured flowers and red fruit: the latter has sometimes flowers of a 

 much deeper red: and that there is also a variety with variegated 

 leaves. 



The second species is a low evergreen shrub, rising with several 

 stalks to the height of two or three feet, dividing at top into several 

 branches. The leaves come out irregularly on every side, sit pretty 

 close to the branches, are thick, smooth, and of a lucid green. 

 Among these, towards the upper part of the stalks, come out the 

 flowers in small clusters; they are of a yellowish green colour, and 

 appear soon after Christmas if the season be not very severe. They 

 are succeeded by oval berries, which are green till June, when they 

 ripen and turn black, soon after which they fall off. It is a native 

 of Britain, &c. 



The third species is a low shrubby plant, which sends out several 

 weak stalks from the root, about a foot long, and spreading about 

 irregularly; these seldom become woody in England, but are tough 

 and stringy, covered with a light bark: the leaves are small, very 

 soft, white and shining like satin, and sit pretty close to the stalks 

 between these, white flowers come out in thick clusters, commonly 

 two or three together, very seldom solitary, bell-shaped, silky on 

 the outside, but yellowish within, imbricated at the base with four 

 or more ovate keeled scales. It is a native of the South of France. 



The fourth species is a very humble shrub, seldom more than one 

 foot high: the stems are branched; the leaves narrow lanceolate, 

 placed without order: the branches terminated by small clusters of 

 purple flowers, which stand erect: the flowers emit a pleasant odour> 

 and appear early in the spring. It is a native of France, &c. 



It varies with white flowers. 



The fifth has the stem becoming shrubby, dichotomous, smooth, 

 naked, eredt; the branches, like the stem, from divaricate erect: the 

 leaves at the top of the last branchlcls, approximating, sessile, acute, 



