suppleynentary to Encyc. of Plants and Hort. Brit. 475 



coast, spreading over the stones, but especially thriving at the 

 back of the low sand hills by which the shore is often skirted. 

 It is, however, by no means confined to this locality ; for we 

 [Dr. Lindley] have specimens of it collected at Conception by 

 Macrae. According to Gandichaud, the red berries are pleasant 

 to eat." {Bot. Reg., August.) 



Embryo Dicotyledonous: Corolla Monopetalous. 

 CLXX. EricdcecE. 



.ioH- ^f^l'CA. [-Bot. mag, 3427 



t9820. recurvata Eedf. drooping round-headed & \ | or 2 my Dp. Br W R C G H 1810 C s p 



Synonymy : " Euryl6ma recurvS^ta Don, Syst. of Gard. and Bot, iii. 817."— X)>-. Hooker. 



The plant Dr. Hooker has illustrated disagrees, he has shown, with some essential characters of Don's 

 ;__ genus EuryKima. Compare the characters of this genus with those cited below on this plant. 



The foliage is of a delicate green colour. The leaves at the 

 extremity of the branches form a sort of starry involucre about 

 the dense heads of flowers; each head consists of from 10 to 16 

 flowers, calyx of four awl-shaped white segments which do not 

 spread. Corolla between ovate and cylindrical, about ^in. long, 

 white in the tube, deep-brown in the segments : these are erect or 

 rather connivent. Style twice as long as the corolla, britrht red 

 in its terminal part. E. recurvata " produces its singular blos- 

 soms in the heathery of the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in the 

 month of May." {Bot. Mag., August.) 



CLXXII. Yacciniece. 



1194. FACCI'NIUM. 



10107rt albiflfirum i^oofc. white-corollaed 36 or ... my W N.America 1833? Lp Bot. mag. 3428 



Allied to V. corymbosum L. It may possiby be the F. album of Lam. (not of Linn., for that Sir James 



Smith has ascertained to be the Xyli^steum ciliatum /S Ph., nor of Pursh, which is Taccinium sta- 



, mineum [" Andrews's Bot. Rep., not of Linn."] ; but the description is too vague to allow a cor- 



conclusion. — Dr. Hooker. 



Very pretty. It has been received at the Glasgow Botanic 

 Garden, from North America. [Bot. Mag., August,) 



■fl0122. caspitosum il- tufted jit or J my W Dp Bh About Hudson's Bay, north-west coast of Ame- 

 [rica, west sides of the Rocky Mountains; east side of Rocky Mountains, in nearly the same 

 latitude, 52° north ; Lake Winipeg and the Sashatchawan 1823 L p Bot. mag. 3429 



The figure is from living specimens in the Glasgow Botanic 

 Garden. The blossoms of V. csespitosum are numerous, ex- 

 ceedingly delicate and beautiful. Corolla very delicate, white 

 with a tinge of deep blush. Berry globose, glaucous, blue-black. 

 Leaves small, obovate, serrate, glabrous. " In the native spe- 

 cimens the blossoms and berries seem to be quite as numerous 

 as the leaves. On one specimen, scarcely more than 2 in. high, 

 but much spreading, I [Dr. Hooker] have counted upwards of 

 thirty flowers." {Bot. Mag., August.) 



CLXXXVI. Compositce. 



[the name 19. 2. sp. 2 . 



LASTHE'NI A DeCandolle, who has not yet published the characters of the genus or the meaning of 

 glabrata Z-«»rf/. smooVn-surfaced O orJI? my.jn Y California 1834 S co Bot. reg. 1 780 

 calif6rnica i5t;c. Californian O o^ ••• — Y Calilornia 1834? S co Bot reg. t. 1780 



[in the text. 



L.glahrdta. — Plant spreading, its whole surface smooth. Leaves 

 opposite, ia pairs, their bases clasping the stem in some degree, 

 the longest of those in the figure about 3 in. long, and about 



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