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1 . C. serpyllif 61ia, Salisb. Leaves 3 - 4" long ; berries 3" broad, bright 

 white. (C. hispidula, Torr. Gray.) Peat-bogs, and mossy woods, N. J. and 

 Perm, to Minn., and northward ; also southward in the Alleghanies to N. C. 

 May. Plant with the aromatic flavor of Gaultheria or Sweet Birch. 



4. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, Adans. BEARBERRV. 



Corolla ovate and urn-shaped, with a short revolute 5-toothed limb. Stamens 

 10, included; anthers with 2 reflexed awns on the back near the apex, opening 

 by terminal pores. Drupe berry-like, with 5-10 seed-like nutlets. Shrubs, 

 with alternate leaves, and scaly-bracted nearly white flowers in terminal ra- 

 cemes or clusters. Fruit austere. (Name composed of &PKTOS, a bear, and 

 o-To.'pvh-fi, a grape or berry, the Greek of the popular name.) 



1. A. Uva-lirsi, Spreng. (BEARBERRY.) Trailing; leaves thick and 

 evergreen, obovate or spatulate, entire, smooth ; fruit red. Rocks and bare 

 hills, N. J. and Penn. to Mo., and far north and westward. May. (Eu., Asia.) 



2. A. alpina, Spreng. (ALPINE BEARBERRV.) Dwarf, tufted and de- 

 pressed; leaves deciduous, serrate, wrinkled with strong netted veins, obovate; 

 fruit black. Alpine summits in N. Eng., and high northward. (Arctic-alpine 

 around the world.) 



5. EPIG-aCA, L. GROUND LAUREL. TRAILING ARBUTUS. 



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

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

 ments ; anthers oblong, awnless, opening lengthwise. Style slender, its apex 

 (as in Pyrola) forming a sort of ring or collar around and partly adnate to the 

 5 little lobes of the stigma. Capsule depressed-globular, 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 alter- 

 nate leaves, on slender petioles, and with rose-colored flowers in small axillary 

 clusters, from scaly bracts. (Name composed of eirl, upon, and 77), the earth, 

 from the trailing growth.) 



1. E. rdpens, L. Sandy woods, or in rocky soil, especially in the shade 

 of pines, Newt', to Minn., south to Fla., and Ky. Flowers appearing in early 

 spring, exhaling a rich spicy fragrance, dimorphous as to style and stamens 

 and subdioecious. In New England called MAYFLOWER. 



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6. GAULTHERIA, Kalm. AROMATIC WINTERGREEN. 



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

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

 Capsule depressed, 5-lobed, 5-celled, 5-valved, many-seeded, enclosed when ripe 

 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 bractlets. (Dedicated by 

 Kalm to " Dr. Gaulthier," of Quebec.) 



1. G-. prociimbens, L. (CREEPING WINTERGREEN.) Stems slender 

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

 cending, leafy at the summit (3-5' high) ; leaves obovate or oval, obscurely 

 serrate ; flowers few, mostly single in the axils, nodding. Cool damp woods, 



