174 CLASS X. ORDER I. 



DECANDRTA. 



MONOGYNIA. 



181. EPIGiEA. 

 EpiGiEA REPENS. L. Ground Laurel. 



Leaves heart-ovate, entire ; corollas cylindrical. 

 tSw. 



Stem woody, trailing, hairy. Leaves alternate, oblong, heart- 

 ed at base, hairy and rough, with hairy petioles. Flowers fra- 

 grant, purple, flesh colored, or white, in terminal or axillary 

 bunches, of from two to six, on very short hairy peduncles. Ca- 

 lyx double. Corolla salver shaped, longer than the calyx, hairy 

 within. Filaments inserted in the bottom of the tube, hairy ; 

 anthers oblong. Germ ovate, hairy ; style straight; stigma with 

 five points. — In woods, Gloucester. — April, May. 



182. GAULTHERIA. 

 Gaultiieria procumbens. Partridge Berry. 



American Medical Botany, PI. xxii. 



Stem prostrate with branches ascending. Leaves 

 in a terminal tuft, obovate with a few ciliate serra- 

 tures. Flowers axillary. 



The stem, or as it might be called root, of this plant is hori- 

 zontal, woody, often a quarter of an inch in thickness. The 

 branches are ascending, but a few inches high, round, and some- 

 what downy. Leaves scattered, near the extremities of the 

 branches, evergreen, coriaceous, shining, oval or obovate, acute 

 at both ends, revolute at the edge, and furnished with a few 

 small serratures, each terminating in a bristle. Flowers axillary, 

 drooping, on round downy stalks. Outer calyx of two concave 

 heart shaped leafets, Avhich may perhaps with more propriety 

 be called bractes. Inner calyx monophyllous, white, cleft into 

 five roundish subacute segments. Corolla white, urceolate, five 

 angled, contracted at the mouth, the border divided into five short, 

 reflexed segments. Filaments white, hairy, bent in a simicircular 

 manner to accommodate themselves to the cavity between the 



