PLATE CXVI. 



GAULTHERIA PROCUMBENS. 



Trailing Gaultheria. 



CLASS 



X. 



ORDER 



!• 



D E CJNDR I A MONO G YNU. Ten Chives. One Pointal 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Caiyx.. Perianthium duplex^ approximatum, 



perfiflens, 



P. exterius diphyllum, brevius j foliolis feraU 



ovatis, concavis, obtufis, 

 P. interius monophyllurn, qmnquefidutn 

 campanulatum ; fegmentis femiovatis. 

 Corolla monopetala, ovata, femiquinquefidaj 



limbo parvo^ revoluto. 



Nectar lum corpufculis decern, fubulatis, 



iSlis, brevifiiinis, cingeutibus gerinen in- 

 tra flamina. 

 Stamina. Filamenta decern, fubulata, incurva, 

 corolla breviora 5 receptaculo inferta. An- 

 therae bicornes^ corniculis bifidis. 



PisTiLLUM. Germen fubrotundum, depreflum. 

 Stylus cylindricusj longitudine corolloe. 

 Stigma obtufum. 



Pericarpicm. Capfula fubrotunda, obtufa, pen- 

 tagona, dcprella, quinque locularis, quia- 

 que valvis, undique tecta perianthio inte- 

 riore transformato et enato in baccara fub- 

 rotundam, coloratara, apice pen'iarn. 



Semina plurinia, fubovata, angnlata^ offea. 



f 



Empalement. Cup double^ clofe together, re- 



maining. 



Outer Cup two leaved, fhorter; leaflets half 

 egg-fhaped, concave, and blunt. 

 Inner Cup one leaf, five-cleft, belKfliaped; 

 fegments half egg- lliaped. 



Blossom one leaf, egg- fliaped, flightly five- 

 cleft 3 border fmall, rolled back. 

 Honey -cup ten fmall fubllances, awl-fliaped^ 

 upright, ycry fhort, furrounding the feed. 

 bud within the chives. 



Chives. Ten threads, awl-iliaped, turned in- 

 wards, fliorter than the bloflbni} fixed into 

 the receptacle. Tips two-horued; horns 

 two cleft. * 



Pointal. Seed-bud roundifli and flattened j 

 Shaft cylindrical, the length of the bloirom. 

 Summit obtufe. 



Seed-vessel* Capfule roundifli obtufely five- 

 fided, flattened^ five cells, five valves; co- 

 vered on all fides by the inner cup^ tranf- 

 formed and fwelled to a roundifh beri}', 



coloured, open at top. 

 Seeds many, nearly Ggg Ihaped, angular and 



hard. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Gaultheria foliis ovatis, obtufe-dentatis, apice 



confertis; caulis fiexuofus, filiformis. 



Gaultheria with 

 toothed, and 

 flem grows 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



^\ 



egg-fiiaped leaves, bluntly 

 crowded together at the top j 



and thread-fliaped. 



1 . A Bloflbm complete. 



2. The Empalement, natural fize. 

 The Empalement, magnified. 

 The Chives as 



3. 

 4. 



5. 



6. 



they ftand on the receptacle, magnified 



The Pointal and feed-bud, with the furrounding honey-cup, magnified. 



The inner Cup of the Empalement, when the fruit is ripe, natural fize. 

 7* A feed vefiel of the natm-al fize when ripe, detached from its cup. 

 8. A npe capfule, cut open Iranfverfely. 



GiX'^rt^f!-"' ^^- i "^''""'^ DiOionary, we learn that, this plant « 

 G^rfna*^'*?,' Sh r, *L>r^ '<S- _That fo ornamental, and Fo eafi.y 



ted 



the 



cularj as. |* 

 rsf fhe fruit 



ic nf.rf,.AT,r \.n.A ~ ^" iimc iioticea, or cultivated m our gardens, is raiuci u^s- 



ind wL [?• I" ^^^'^'.^^Pof^'-e' '-"n evergreen, and from the beautiful appearance of 

 our tfre»;/ftV • '°"!f '° fucceffion nearly through the whole year; muft be confidered, 

 ?hTfi. or?T;"^ '[ ^^'? ^'"'^'' f°^ the front of the Ihrubbery bonders, &c. as it never nJ 

 Sderablee^int'-f r'/°.""^"S "" *^°"^P''^'^ ^^^"ed clump, which may be made to «P/«f ^^^ 

 ^^lf^:^^%i^:!^^- ^^^ ^-^y P- earth. Tl^^very ™s con^n^^ of^ 



of 



higber 



Gen 



Pomt out the Gauhh.r,-. .. :„..,_.. _,*:... .'^^ obfer^-a tion, and comment, 



«fed as 1 fnh(ilu.,^"f" /" "^"''''"'*' xMonn America, where it is native, an infufion of the Ic: 

 S «iuf. t^'l'±L'rj,.°^^ '^=- "f •'.«-. cither dried, or plucked frelh fromtl-eptaC 



1 * _ C -^ T.J *r4 y-\r% 



exnerimem PnV.^- a t ^^""^^^'i^. as a particular object for obfer^-atic 

 S^ralMituet /" .''I"!!' ^-^M-rlca, wheie it is native,^ an 



the 



w 



k 



irnxt wiUi the commoneft 



