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leaves very liairy. 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 stonv woods, on the sides of hills, and at the roots of pines. Height 

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

 May to July. 



Variety. 



H^ E. r. 2 ruhicLinda Swt. Fl. Brit. 2d ser t. SSi. 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'RPUS G. Dow. The Piialerocarpus. Lin. Syst. Octki\- 



dria Monogynia. 



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



Symmymes. racclnium Lin. ; Gaultherra Pursh ; Oxyc6ccus Kutt. ; .,4'rbutus Lam. 



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



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

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

 thers semibifid. (Doii^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. 



t, 1. P. SERPYLLiFo^Lius G. Don. The Wild-Thyme-leaved Phalerocarpus. 



Identification. Don's Mill., 3. p. 841. 



Synoiiymes. Faccinium hisi)idulum Lin. Sp. 500. ; Gaultherm icrpyllifblia PwrsA Sept. 1. p. 283. 



t. 13. ; -/'rbutus fllif6rmis Lain. Diet. 1. p. 228. ; Oxycocius hispidulus Pers. 

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



and oxirfig. 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 Gaulthen'a procum- 

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

 Canada to Pennsylvania ; and more particuiarl}' 

 where cedars and other evergreens are predomi- 

 nant ; and growing always amidst iS'phagnum. 



! Height 6 in. Introduced in 1813. Flowers white ; 



; April and May. Berries white. 



Genus XX. 



1094. P. jerpyllifdlius. 



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CLETHRA L. The Clethra. Lin. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. 



, Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 5b3. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 841. 



' Synonyme. Cucll&ria Ruiz et Pav. Syst. 10-5. 



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



1 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 

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



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