XLIII. 



CI.ETHRA. 



581 



leaves very hairy. Leaves cordate-ovate, quite entire. Corollas cylin- 

 drical. Flowers white, tinged with red, very fragrant. (Don's Mill.) A 

 creeping evergreen shrub. Nova Scotia to Carolina, on shady rocks and 

 in stony woods, on the sides of hills, and at the roots of pines. Height 

 6 in. Introduced in 1736. Flowers white, tinged with red, very fragrant ; 

 May to July. 



Variety. 



*r E. r. 2 ruUc'inda Swt. Fl. Brit. 2d ser. t. 384. has brilliant pink 



flowers. Raised from seed, 1836. 



Succeeds in peat soil, kept rather moist, and protected with a frame or 

 hand-glass, or with snow, during very severe frosts. 



GENUS XIX. 



PHALEROCA'RPUSG.-Dow. THE PHALEROCARPUS. Lin. Syst. Octan- 

 dria Monogynia. 



Synonymes. J'accfnium Lin. ; Gaulthena Pursh ; Oxycoccus Nutt. ; ^4'rbutus Lam. 

 Deriv 



Identification. Don's Mill., 3. p. 341. 

 onymes. Faccfnium Lin. ; Gaulth 

 ivation. From phaleros, white, and karpos, a fruit ; in reference to the colour of the berries. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 4-cIeft, bibracteate at the base. Corolla short, campanulate, 

 4-cleft. Stamtns S ; filaments hairy ?. Hypogynous disk 8-toothed. An- 

 thers semibifid. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen; small, roundish-oval, acute. 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, nearly sessile, white. A shrub, creeping, ever- 

 green, of diminutive size, with hispid branches and the habit of wild thyme. 



ifc, 1. P. SERPYLLIFO^LIUS G. Don. The Wild-Thyme-leaved Phalerocarpus. 



Identification. Don's Mill., 3. p. 

 Synonymes. Faccinium hispidu 



\841. 

 ilum Lin. 



500. ; Gaulthena serpyllifblia Pursh Sept. 1. p. 283. 



t. 13. ; ^'rbutus filifdrmis Lam. Diet. 1. p. 228.; Oxycoccus hispidulus Pers. 

 Engravings. Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. t. 23. ; Pursh Sept., t. 13. ; 

 and our fig. 1094. 



Spec. Char., $c. Berries white, produced in consider- 

 able quantities, aromatic, not very acid, and rather 

 insipid than agreeable. The shrub has the same 

 aromatic taste and smell as Gaulthena procum- 

 bens. (Don's Mill.) A creeping evergreen shrub. 

 Canada to Pennsylvania ; and more particularly 

 where cedars and other evergreens are predomi- 

 nant ; and growing always amidst ^Sphagnum. 

 Height 6 in. Introduced in 1815. Flowers white; 

 April and May. Berries white. 



GENUS XX. 



1094. P. *erpyllif61ius. 



CLETHRA L. THE CLETHRA. Lin. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 553. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 841. 

 Cuelldria Ruiz et Pav. Syst. 105. 



rivation. From klethra, the Greek name of the alder ; alluding to a supposed resemblance in 

 the leaves. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla so deeply 5-parted as to appear pen- 

 tapetalous. Stamens 10, enclosed, or nearly so. Anthers behind, at length 

 infiexedly pendulous and obverse, cordate, mucronate at the apex, mutic. 



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