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The bright scarlet berries of this plant, formed of the 

 calyx, are extremely attractive and aromatic. The egg- 

 shaped leaves are evergreen, dark and shining above and a 

 lighter colour beneath, and have blunt-toothed margins. 

 The white or pale pink flowers are campanulate with re- 

 curved lobes. 



Gaultheria humifiisa, or Creeping Gaultheria, is a tufted 

 species with flowering branches one to five inches long and 

 small oval leaves. The pinkish-white flowers are depressed- 

 campanulate, little exceeding the calyx in length, and the 

 fruit resembles that of the preceding species. These plants 

 are named after Hugues Gaultier, a naturalist and court- 

 physician at Quebec in the middle of the i8th century. 



SWEET ANDROSACE 



Androsace CJianiccjasmc. Primrose Family 



Stems: slender. Leaves: in more or less open rosulate tufts, one- 

 nerved, ovate. Flowers: in capitate umbels. 



The sweet smell of these delicate little clustered blossoms, 

 that grow from one to three inches above the soil and fill the 

 air with fragrance, is most attractive. Their primrose-like 

 petals, of creamy or pinkish hue, look up with yellow eyes 

 to greet each passer-by, while rosulate tufts of tiny narrow 

 leaves are set about the slender stems. 



Androsace septentrionalis, or Alpine Androsace, is a very 

 different species from the foregoing one, having much- 

 branched thread-like stems bearing numerous tiny white 

 flowers. The leaves are lance-shaped and rosulate. 



Androsace diffusa, or Spreading Androsace, is more or 

 less hairy and has narrow rosulate leaves which are spar- 

 ingly toothed. The scapes are erect, spreading and often 

 diffusely branched, and the pinkish-white flowers have a 



