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corolla and the germ. Anthers ohlong, orange colored, ending 

 in two double horns, bursting outwardly, for their whole length 

 above the filaments, and not opening by pores as in Pyrola. 

 Pollen white. Germ roundish, depressed, five angled, resting on 

 a reddish, ten toothed, glandular ring. Style erect, straight. 

 Stigma simple, moist. The fruit is a small, five celled capsule, 

 invested with the calyx, which becomes large, round, and fleshy, 

 having the appearance of a bright scarlet berry. — Dry woods. — 

 May and August. — Perennial. 



The leaves have a well known agreeable spicy taste. 



Gaultheria hispidula. 3IuhL Creeping Gmdtheria, 



Stem creeping, hispid ; leaves roundish oval, acute, 

 flowers soHtary, axillary, subsessile, octandrous; co- 

 rollas short-bell shaped. 



Syn. Vaccinium hispidulum. Mx. 



Stems creeping, filiform, woody, hispid with appressed bristles. 

 Leaves evergreen, small, roundish oval, rather acute, with scat- 

 tered hairs. Flowers solitary, on recurved peduncles, with two 

 concave bractes. Calyx in four acute segments. Corolla cam- 

 panulate, somewhat quadrangular, ending in four subacute seg- 

 ments. — A delicate evergreen growing close to the ground in old 

 woods in various interior parts of the state. — May, June. 



The taste of the leaves precisely resembles that of G. pro- 

 cumbens. 



183. ARBUTUS. 



Arbutus Uva Ursi. Bear Berry. 



Stem procumbent ; leaves entire. L. 



American Medical Botany, PI. vi. 

 This is a shrubby plant, which trails upon the ground, putting 

 out roots from the principal stems, and tending upward with the 

 young shoots only. The cuticle is deciduous, and peels oflf from 

 the old stems. Leaves scattered, obovate, acute at base, attached 

 by short petioles, coriaceous, evergreen, glabrous, shining above, 

 paler beneath, entire, the margin rounded, but scarcely reflexed, 

 in the young ones pubescent. Flowers in a short cluster onthe 

 ends of the branches. Peduncles reflexed, furnished at base 



