164 GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS 



Medical Properties and Uses. Gaultheria possesses aromatic, 

 stimulant, and astringent properties, and has been employed with 

 benefit in chronic diarrhoea. It has also been used, but with 

 doubtful advantage, as an emmenagogue, and with the view of 

 increasing the secretion of milk. Oil of Gaultheria or Winter 

 Green also possesses aromatic and stimulant properties, but it is 

 chiefly used on account of its agreeable flavour to cover the un- 

 pleasant taste of other medicines. 



Besides their medicinal use, an infusion of the leaves is 

 employed in some parts of North America as a substitute for 

 China tea, under the name of Mountain or Salvador Tea. 



The fruits under the name of Partridge berries or Deer berries 

 are much relished by some persons, and afford winter food to 

 partridges, deers, and other wild animals. 



Per. Mat. Med., vol. ii, pt. 2, p. 7 ; U. S. Disp., by W. & B., pp. 

 420 and 1307. 



DESCRIPTION Ofl PLATE, 



1. A flowering branch from the Garden of the Apothecaries' Society* 

 2 k A branch with fruit from the Royal Gardens, Kew, 

 3 k A flower. 



4. Vertical section of the same. 



5. Vertical section of ovary,. 



6. Transverse section of ovary. 



7. A stamen. 



8. Fruit. 



9. The same with the enlarged calyx partly removed. 



10. Transverse section of same. 



11. Seed, 



(47, 10 and 11 enlarged,) 



