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obtuse, undivided^ equalling the calyx, and find it to be 



an Arenaria. The petals are generally wanting, and I 

 have never found it with more than three. Elliott's ac- 

 count of the size of the petals differs from mine, but the 

 plant in his Herbarium is the same with mine* There is 

 no specimen of Stellaria prostrata in Herb. Ell. 



(16) Ilex vomttdria. The popular designation of this 

 shrub Is Yopon^ a name of Indian origin, which I give as 

 I have heard it pronounced. I have never seen the word 

 In print, except in an amusing relic of the last century, 

 called a Natural History of N. Carolina. The writer, one 

 John Brickell, M. D., spells it Yaupan, and saith it is the 

 plant " whereof the tea is made, so very much in request 

 among both the Indians and the Christians." It is still 

 used, and is said to make, if well cured, a very pleasant 

 beverage. Its specific name indicates no very agreeable 

 properties. 



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The plant so called by 



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botanists ; but the A, ligustrlna, Ell. and Vaccinium ligus- 

 trlnura Lin. A. ligustrlna, Eat. Man. is, I suppose, the 

 same. The following is a description of a plant closely 

 aUied to the above, and perhaps no more than a variety. 

 The flowers I have not seen. 



Ten or twelve feet high, young branches red and smooth; 

 leaves ovate lanceolate, acute, coriaceous, glabrous, mi- 

 nutely serrulate, revolute, dark green and shining above, 

 paler, somewhat ferruginous and furfuraceous beneath ; 



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panicle long, branches short, with two or three small 

 leaves ; calyx segments ovate, acute ; Accessary valvules 

 very distinct. Capsule ovate, obtuse, hardly angled. 



(13) Kalmia cuneata. This plant does not properly 

 fall within the range of the catalogue, but I have "intro- 

 duced it because a rare species, of which few localities 



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