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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



ciliately toothed. Flowers few, terminal, iiutant. 

 (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 nioii^t ; in which soil alone 

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

 make a most excellent tea. 



1091. G. procumbens. 



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



Identificatiun. Pursh Fl. Araer. Sept , 1. p. 283. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 839. 



Engravings. Pursh Sept., 1. fig. ; Bot. Mag., t. 2843. ; Bot. Reg., t. 1411. ; and onr fig. 1092. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. 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 .^g^i^r) / 

 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 2 ft. to 3 ft. Introduced in 1826. 

 Flowers white, tinged with pink ; Alay. 

 Fruit purple ; September. 



This plant grows in the shade of close 

 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 

 \ilant has already been employed as undergrowth ui artificial plantations, for 

 .\e sake of the shelter and food which it aft'ords for game. 



1092. G. Shallon. 



Genus XVIII. 





EPIG^^A L. The Epig^a. Lin. Sj/st. Decandria Monogynia. 



Jclentificufion. Lin. Gen., No. 550. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 841. 



Hynonymes. .1/emecylum Hick. Gen. 13. ; May Flower, yova Scotia. 



Dei-ivation. From epi, upon, and gaia, the earth ; the plant creeps upon the surface of the earth. 



Gen. Char. Cali/.v large, 5-parted, furnished with 3 bracteas at the base. 

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

 Slainens 10. Cap.iide 5-celled, many-seeded. 

 Placenta 5-parted. (Doit'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. 



j^ \. E. REOPENS L. The creeping Epigaea. 



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



Cat.,ed. 1836. 

 Engravings. Bot. Rep., 102. ; Bot. Cab., 160. ; and our , fig. 1093. 



Spec. Char., S^c. Branches, petioles, and nerves of loss. e. ripen*. 



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