CHAP. LXIX. 



t'LE % THRA. 1127 



JU 1. E. RKViiNs L. The creeping Epigaea. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 5. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 841. ; Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 



Engravings. Andr. Hot. Rep., 102.; Lam. Ill, t 367. f. 1. j Lodd. Bot Cab., IfiO. ; Pluk. Aim., 



Scotia to Carolina, on shady rocks and in stony woods, on the sides of 

 hills, and at the roots of pines; where it forms a creeping shrub, flowering 

 from May to July. It was introduced in 1736; and succeeds in peat soil, 

 kept rather moist, and protected with a frame or hand-glass, or with snow, 

 during very severe frosts. 



GENUS XVIII. 



PHALEROCA'RPUS G.Don. THE PHALEROCARPUS. Lin. Syst. Octan- 



dria Monogynia. 



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



Synonymes. Faccinium Lin. ; Gaulthferr'a Pursh ; Oxycuccus Nutt. ; Arbutus Lam. 



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



Description. A small creeping plant, with hispid branches ; small, roundish- 

 oval, acute leaves ; and axillary, solitary, nearly sessile, ? white flowers ; and 

 the habit of wild thyme. 



A, 1. P. SERPYLLiFoYiA G. Don. The Wild-Thyme-leaved Phalerocarpus. 



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



Synonymcs. Faccfnium hispidulum Lin. Sp., 500., Mick*. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 228. t. 23., Lodd. 



Cat., ed. 1836; Gaultheria serpyllifblia Pursh Fl. Amcr. Sept., 1. p. 283. t. 13. ; ^'rbutus filiformis 



Lam. Diet., 1. p. 228.; Oxycoccus hispidulus Pers. 

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



Spec. Char., $c. Berries white, produced in considerable quantities, aro- 

 matic, not very acid, and rather insipid than agreeable. The shrub has the 

 same aromatic taste and smell as Gaulther/tf procumbens. (Don's Mill.,\\\. 

 p. 841.) It is a native from Canada to Pennsylvania; and Nuttall has ob- 

 served it north-westward of Lake Michigan : and Pursh remarks that it 

 abounds more particularly where cedars and other evergreens are predomi- 

 nant ; keeping pretty constant pace with the northern forests of pines, 

 larches, and firs ; and growing always amidst (Sphagnum. It is a creeping 

 shrub, flowering in April and May. It was introduced in 1815, and, in 

 British gardens, it is cultivated in moist peat, in an open airy situation. 



GENUS XIX. 



CLE V THRA L. THE CLETHRA. Lin. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Lin. Gen., No. 55a ; Schreb. Gen., 751. ; Geertn. Fruct., 1. p. 301. t. 63. ; Juss. Gen., 

 160.; Gron.,43. ; Nutt Gen., 1. p. 275.; H. B. et Kunth Nov. Gen. Amer., 3. p. 288.; Don's 

 Mill., 3. p. 841. 



Synonymc. Cuellaria Ruiz et Pav. Syst, 105. 



Derivation. From klethra, the Gree'k name of the alder ; alluding to a supposed resemblance in 

 the leaves. 



Description. Deciduous shrubs, with alternate leaves, and terminal, solitary, 

 or panicled racemes of white, bracteated flowers. From the appearance of the 

 plants in British gardens, we are strongly inclined to think that all the sorts 

 may be referred to one species. 



