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A. bicolor, Gray. Shrub .3 or 4 feet high: leaves petioled, not vertical, oblong-oval 

 thin-coriaceous, pinnately-veined, l.or 2 inches long, white-tomentose beneath, as are the' 

 ovate obtuse bracts and much imbricated sepals: pedicels very short: corolla rose-color 



lu\aa r? . p^^./^'"""*^ f '^^*'™ •■ '^'•"P^ ^ "'• 4 ^^'' '" di^^^ter. - Proc. Am. Acad! 

 v^i. 366, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. Xylococcus bicolor, Nutt. 1. c. - San Diego Co., Cahfornia, Nuttall, 

 Cooper, Cleveland, &c. Fl. February. ,-i^uuuu, 



A. Clevelandi. More pubescent : leaves sessile, narrower, acuminate, margins more 

 revolute: inflorescence leafy: bracts and sepals acute: corolla 4 lines long, equalled bv 



■ the pedicels : fruit unknown. (When the friut becomes known.it may refer this recently 

 discovered species to the following section.) -Potrero, San Diego Co., California Cleve- 

 land, il. Sept. ' 



§ 4. CoMAROSTiPHYLis. Leaves coriaceous, evergreen : drupe with granulate 



or warty surface and a solid few-celled putamen. — Comarosfaphylis, Zucc. 



A. polif olia, HBK. Shrub 5 to 8 feet liigh, glabrous : leaves linear-lanceolate pale 



beneath : flowers in a loose terminal raceme or panicle : calyx-lobes triangular and acute • 



corolla reddish, ovoid : drupe dark purple, small. — Nov. Gen. & Spec. iii. 277, t. 258; Ton-.' 



Mex. Bomid. 108. — California, on the southern boundary, and Mexico. 



6. EPIGJ&A, L. Mayflower. (Fornaed of 'm, upon, yij, the earth, from 

 the mode of growth.) — Prostrate or somewhat creeping; the short slender stems 

 barely shrubby, rusty-bristly, leafy only toward the summit of the flowering 

 slioots ; the leaves petioled, alternate, thin-coriaceous, veiny, pale green, persistenr, 

 round-oval or elliptical, mostly cordate, entire. Flowers in earliest spring, almost 

 sessile in a short and close terminal cluster, bracteate and 2-bracteolate ; the 

 somewhat scale-like persistent bracts equalling the calyx. Sepals ovate-lanceolate 

 and acuminate, nearly scarious and often purplish. Lobes of the corolla oval, 

 either quiucuncially imbricated in the bud or imbricate-convolute. Capsule 

 depressed-globose and somewhat 5-angled, bristly, thin-walled. Seeds numerous 

 on the much-projecting placentae, round-oval, with a close and thin reticulated 

 coat. The flowers are heterom'orphous and inclined to be dioecious or dioecio-dimor- 

 phous. Those with fully polliniferous anthers seldom set fruit: their stigmas short, 

 erect, slightly projecting beyond the margin of the 5-toothed ring (to tlie teeth of 

 which they severally are adnate) ; the style sometimes longer than the stamens 

 and projecting, sometimes shorter and included. Fully fertile flowers on other 

 plants ; their style (as in the former sort sometimes long and exserted, sometimes 

 shorter and included) with stigmas elongated and much surpassing the ring, short- 

 linear, glutinous, radiately divergent; their stamens either slightly polliniferous, 

 or reduced to abortive filaments, or even wanting. — Gray, Man. ed. 5, 293, & 

 Amer. Jour. Sci. ser. 3, xii. 74. 



E. repens, L. (Mayflower, Trailing Arbutus, Ground Laurkl.) Flowers mostly 

 numerous or several in the cluster, spicy-fragrant : corolla rose-color to almost white, 

 bearded inside ; its tube more or less exceeding the calyx. — L^m. 111. t. 367 ; Andr. Bot.' 

 Rep. t. 102; Bot. Reg. 3, t. 201; Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 384. — Gravelly or sandy wood- 



. lands in the shade of evergreens, Newfoundland westward to Saskatchewan, and south to 

 Kentucky and Florida. (The other and very nearly related species is E. Asiatica, Maxim., 

 of Japan.) 



7. GAULTHl^RIA, Kalm, L. Aromatic Wii^tergreen. (Dedicated by 

 Kalm to " Dr. Gaulthier " of Quebec, whose name, as appears from the records, 

 was written Gaultier. The genus therefore should not be written Gualtheria, 

 (Scop.,&c.), nor Gualteria, Gautiera, &c., as by others. If changed at all, the right 



