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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



ciliately toothed. Flowers few, terminal, nutant. 



(Don's Mill.) A very small evergreen shrub. Canada 



to Virginia, in dry woods, on mountains, and in 



sandy places. Height 6 in. Introduced in 1762. 



Flowers white; July to September. Berries red; 



remaining on the plant great part of the winter. 



A very pretty little shining-leaved plant, improperly 

 termed procumbent, which makes very ornamental 

 edgings in peat soil, kept moist ; in which soil alone 

 it can be well grown. The leaves, if properly cured, 

 make a most excellent tea. 



1091. G. procuinbens. 



a. 2. G. SHA'LLON Pursh. The Shallon Gaultheria. 



Identification. Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. p. 283. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 839. 



Engravings. Pursh Sept., 1. fig. ; Bot. Mag., t. 2843. ; Bot. Reg., t. 14] 1. ; and our Jig. 1092. 



Spec. Char., $c. Procumbent, hairy on the stems. Leaves ovate, subcordate, 

 serrated, glabrous on both surfaces. Racemes secund, bracteate, clothed 

 with rusty down. Branches warted, clothed with rusty down when young. 

 Leaves broad, abruptly acuminated. Pe- 

 dicels scaly. Corolla white, tinged with 

 red, downy, urceolate, with a closed limb. 

 Berries globose, acute, fleshy, purple. 

 (Don's Mill.) A procumbent evergreen 

 shrub. North America, on the Falls of the 

 Columbia, and near the Western Ocean. 

 Height 2ft. to 3ft. Introduced in 1826. 

 Flowers white, tinged with pink ; May. 

 Fruit purple ; September. 



This plant grows in the shade of close i 092 . G . skdihn. 



pine forests, where hardly any thing else 



will thrive. The berries are much esteemed by the natives, on account 

 of their agreeable flavour. In the North of England, and in Scotland, the 

 plant has already been employed as undergrowth in artificial plantations, for 

 the sake of the shelter and food which it affords for game. 



GENUS XVIII. 



L. THE EPIGJSA. Lin. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 550. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 84] . 



Synonymes. Afemecylum Mich. Gen. 13. ; May Flower, Nova Scotia. 



Derivation. From epi, upon, and gaia, the earth ; the plant creeps upon the surface of the ea 



Gen. Char. Calyx large, 5-parted r furnished with 3 bracteas at the base. 

 Corolla salver-shaped, with a 5-parted spreading 

 Stamens 10. Capsule 5-celled, many-seeded. 



. . , r . 



Corolla salver-shaped, with a 5-parted spreading limb ; tube villous inside. 

 Stamens 10. Capsule 5-celled 

 Placenta 5-parted. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, ever- 

 green ; entire. Flowers axillary and terminal, 

 in dense racemes. A shrub, evergreen, creep- 

 ing, tufted ; native of North America. 



ik 1. E. REOPENS L. The creeping Epigsea. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 565. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 841. ; Lodd. 



Cat, ed. 1836. 

 Engravings. Bot. Rep., 102. ; Bot. Cab., ICO. ; and our./fg. 1093. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Branches, petioles, and nerves of 



