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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Gaultheri* continued. 



American continent. A few are found in Asia, five or 

 six occur in Tasmania and New Zealand, and one is 

 Japanese. Flowers white, pink, or red, axillary and 

 terminal, racemose, rarely solitary ; corolla urceolate or 

 campanulate; five-lobed ; lobes spreading or recurved, 

 imbricated. Leaves coriaceous, persistent, alternate, 

 rarely opposite, often serrate or serrulate, penninerved. 

 The hardy species thrive in a peat soil, and are readily 

 increased by division or by layers. The greenhouse 

 kinds should be treated like other greenhouse shrubs. 

 The species enumerated below are those best known to 

 cultivation. O. procumbens does well in the ordinary 

 peat border ; and O. Shallon is well adapted for growing 

 on rockwork, or as edgings. 



G. antipoda (antipodal).* A. white or pink, small, axillary anil 

 solitary, or crowded towards the ends of the branchlets. I. very 

 coriaceous, veined, shortly petioled, orbicular, oblong-lanceolate 

 or linear-lanceolate, acute, obtuse, or acuminate, h. 6ft New 

 Zealand, 1820. Greenhouse. 



G. ferruglnea (rusty-coloured).* fl. pink ; racemes bracteate, 

 erect, rising from the axils at the tops of the branches, the whole 

 forming a panicle. June. I. ovate, acute, shining above, with 

 serrulately scabrous margins, clothed with rusty tomentum 

 beneath, as well as the racemes and flowers. A dwarf shrub, or 

 small tree. Brazil, 1852. Greenhouse. (B. M. 4697.) 

 G. fragrantisslma (very fragrant).* fl. secund, drooping, shortly 

 pedicelled ; racemes axillary, strict, erect, or inclined, shorter 

 than the leaves, many-flowered, pubescent ; corolla white or pale 

 pink, mouth small ; lobes rounded. April. I. very variable in 

 shape, elliptic, ovate, obovate, or lanceolate, acute or acu- 

 minate. Branches stout, obtusely angled, shining. Himalayas, 

 1869. A handsome greenhouse plant (quite hardy in some parts 

 of Ireland). (B. M.5984.) 



G. procumbens (procumbent).* Canada Tea ; Creeping Winter- 

 green. fl. white, few, terminal, nutant, solitary. July. Berries 

 red, edible. 1. obovate, acute at the base, finely and ciliately 

 toothed. Stems procumbent ; branches erect, naked at bottom, 

 but with crowded leaves at top. North America, 1762. Hardy. 

 See Fig. 81 (B. M. 1966.) 



G. scabra (scabrous). /., racemes axillary, simple ; calyx and 

 bracts clothed with glandular hairs. Summer. 1. ovate-cordate, 

 acute, toothed, scabrous, reticulately veined beneath. Caraccas. 

 Greenhouse. 



G. Shallon (Salal).* /., corolla white, tinged with red, downy, 

 urceolate, with a closed limb ; racemes secund, brac 



May. 



, bracteate, downy. 

 Berries purple, globose, acute, fleshy. I. ovate, sub- 



rpl 



cordate, serrate, glabrous on both surfaces. North-west America, 

 1826. Plant procumbent, hairy. The berries of this hardy species 

 have a very agreeable flavour, and make excellent tarts. See 

 Fig. 88. (B. ST. 2843 ; B. R. 1411.) 



GAURA (from gauros, superb ; in reference to the 

 elegance of the flowers of some of the species). ORD. 

 Onagrariece. A genus comprising about twenty species 

 of hardy annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, 

 natives of the warmer parts of North America. Mowers 

 in terminal, spiral racemes. Leaves alternate, simple. 

 But few of the species are now to be found in cultiva- 

 tion. A light soil suits Gauras best, and they can only 

 be propagated by seed, which should be sown early in 

 spring, in the open ground. As soon as the seedlings 

 are large enough to handle, they should be transferred 

 to their flowering quarters, and a slight covering 

 afforded them during severe weather. 



G. blennis (biennial), fl. irregular ; petals at first white, then 

 reddish, obovate, ascending, spreading, naked; sepals purple 

 at the apex. August to October. 1. lanceolate-oblong, acute 

 denticulated, h. 4?t. to 6ft. 1762. (B. M. 389.) 

 G. Lindheimeri (Lindheimer*s).* fl. rose-white, produced in 

 numerous elegant spikes throughout the summer, h. 4ft. Texas, 

 1850. Perennial. An elegant slender branching species for 

 masses or mixtd borders. See Fig. 89. (L. & P. F. G. 3, 127.) 

 G. parvlflora (small-flowered), fl. yellow, minute, crowded; 

 spikes elongated. August. I. oblong, acuminated, remotely 

 denticulated, and ciliated on the margins, rather velvety when 

 young. h. 1ft. to IJft. 1835. Annual. (B. M. 3506.) 



GAUSSIA (a commemorative name). OBD. Palmece. 

 A genus of two or three species of ornamental, medium- 

 sized, unarmed palms, with pinnatisect leaves, from the 

 West Indian Islands. They are nearly allied to Cb.a- 

 mtedorea (which see for culture). O. Ohiesbreghtii 

 (STN8. Chamcedorea Qhiesbreghtii and Oreodoxa ventri- 

 coa) and 0. princepa are in cultivation in this country. 



GAYLUSSACIA (named in honour of N. F. Gay- 

 Lussac, a celebrated French chemist, 1778-1850). STN. 

 Lussacia. ORD. Vacciniacece. A genus of about forty 

 species of very ornamental, but little grown, green- 

 house or half-hardy evergreen or deciduous shrubs, 

 natives of tropical America. Flowers white or scarlet, 

 small, disposed in few or many-flowered axillary racemes. 

 Leaves alternate, persistent, rarely membranaceous, and 

 deciduous, entire or serrate, terminated by a hard spine. 

 For culture, see Vaccinium. 



G. 



(low), fl. white to rose-red ; corolla bell-shaped ; 



bracts leaf -like, as long as the pedicels; racemes elongated. 

 June. fr. black. I. deciduous, entire, obovate-oblong, mucronate, 

 green on both sides, rather thick and shining when old. h. 1ft. 

 to 5ft. North America, 1774. (B. M. 1106, under name of Vac- 

 ci niuin dumosum. 



G. 



shaped ; bracts 



(leafy).* fl. greenish-purple ; corolla globular, bell- 

 cts deciduous, shorter than the slender drooping 

 pedicels ; racemes slender, loose. May and June, fr. dark blue, 



with a white bloom, sweet and edible. /. deciduous, entire, 

 obovate-oblong, blunt, pale, glaucous beneath. Branches slender 

 and divergent, h. 3ft. to 6ft. North America, 1761. (A. B. R. 140, 

 under name of Vaccinium frondosum.) 



G. pseudo-vaccinium (false Vaccinium). fl. crimson ; racemes 

 axillary, erect, secund, bracteate. May. I. elliptic-lanceolate, 

 obsoletely serrated towards the top. h. 1ft. to 2ft. Brazil, 

 1843. Greenhouse. SVN. Vaccinium brasiliensis. 



G. resinosa (resinous).* fl. reddish ; corolla ovoid-conical, or at 

 length cylindrical, with an open mouth ; bracts and bractlets 

 small and deciduous; racemes short, clustered, one-sided; pe- 

 dicels as long as the flowers. May and June. fr. black, without 

 bloom, pleasant (very rarely white). I. deciduous, entire, oval, 

 oblong-ovate, or oblong, thickly clothed and (as well as the 

 flowers) at first clammy with resinous globules, h. 1ft. to 3ft. 

 North America (in woodlands and swamps), 1782. (B. M. 1288, 

 under name of Vaccinium resitiogum.) 



FIG. 89. FLOWERING BRANCH OF GAURA LINDHEIMERI. 



