PLATE CII. 



EPIGiEA RE PENS. 



Creeping Epigcea. 



CLASS X. ORDER I. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Ten Chives. One Pointal. 



GENERIC 



Calyx. Perianthium duplex, approximatum, 

 perfiftens. 



P. exteritu triphyllum ; foliolis ovato-lance- 

 olatis, aeuminatis; exteriore majore. 



P. interim quinquepartitum, erectum, ex- 

 teriore paulo longius; foliolis lanceolatis, 

 aeuminatis. 

 Corolla monopetala, hypocrateriformis; tubus 

 cylindricus, intus hirfutus; limbus patens, 

 quinquepartitus, lobis ovato-oblongis. 



Stamina. Filamenta decern, filiformia, longi- 



tudine tubi. Antherae oblongoe, acutae. 

 Pistillum. Germen globofum, villofum. Stylus 



filiformis, longitudine ftaminum. Stigma 



obtufum, fubquinquefidum. 

 Peiucarpium. Caplula fub-globofa, deprelTa, 



pentagona.quinquelocularis, quinquevalvis. 

 Semina plurima, fubrotunda. 



Receptuculum magnum quinquepartitum. 



SPECIFIC 

 Epiga:a caulibus procumbentibus; foliis cordato- 



ovatis, integerrimis, reticularis; corollis hy- 



pocrateriformibus. 



CHARACTER. 



E.mpalement. Cup double, clofe together, and 

 remaining. 



Outer cup three-leaved; leaflets between 

 lance and egg-fliape, pointed; the outer 

 one the largeft. 



Inner cup of five divifions, upright, a little 

 longer than the outer; leaflets lance-fhaped 

 and pointed. 



Blossom one petal, falver-fhaped; tube cylin- 

 drical, hairy within; the border fpreading 

 with five divifions, the fegments of an ob- 

 long egg-lh.ipe. 



Chives. Ten thread-fhaped threads the length 

 of the tube. Tips oblong, and tapered. 



Pointal. Seed-bud globular and hairy. Shaft 

 thread-fhaped, the length of the chives. 

 Summit blunt, and flightly five-cleft. 



Seed-vessel. Capfule nearly globular, flattened, 

 five-fided, five cells, and five valves. 



Seeds many, roundiih. 



Receptacle large, of five divifions. 

 CHARACTER. 



Epigaea with ftems that lay on the earth; leaves 

 between heart and egg-fhape, quite entire, 

 and netted; blofibms falver-fhaped. 



REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 



1. The two Cups of the Erapalement. 



2. The inner Cup, difengaged from the outer. 



3. A Blollbm cut open, to fhew its hairy interior. 



4. The Chives and Pointal, as they ftand in the Bloffom. 

 .5. The Pointal, (magnified). 



The Creeping Epigaea is the only fpecies of the genus yet in Britain; it was fir ft introduced by P. Col- 

 linfon, Efq. in 1736, from N. America; where it is found in moll parts, from Virginia, as far north as 

 Canada. The flowers of this plant are extremely fragrant, and are produced from March till May. 

 Hitherto, very few fituations have been found congenial to its cultivation, or growth ; indeed, fo fnbjed 

 is it to perifli from the moifture, or changeablenefs of atmofphere in our winter months, to which it 

 is not fubjec"t in its native clime, being during that feafon covered with a deep fnow; that unlets an 

 occafional fupply l.ad not been procured from America, the plant mull, long ere this, have been loft to 

 us. The foil which appears beft adapted for its prefervation, is a light lardy loam: if planted in the 

 epen air, it lhould have a llieltered fituation, on a dry border; but the mull likely mode to preferve it, 

 is by keeping it as a greenhoufe plant. It is with difficulty increaled by cutting-, but may be divided 

 at the root, with luccefs, in March. Our figure was made at the nurfery of Meff. Lee and Kennedy, 

 Hammerfmith, this year, in the month of April. 



