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A. bioolor, Gray. Shrub 3 or 4 feet high: leaves petioled, not vertical, oblong-oval, 

 thin-coriaceous, pinnately-veined, 1 or 2 inches long, white-tomentose beneath, as are the 

 ovate obtuse bracts and much imbricated sepals : pedicels very short : corolla rose-color, 

 3 or 4 lines long: filaments filiform: drupe 3 or 4 lines in diameter. — Proc. Am. Acad, 

 vii. 366, & Bot. Calif. 1. c. Xi/lococcus blcolor, Nutt. 1. c. — San Diego Co., California, XuUall, 

 Cooper, Cleveland, &c. Fl. February. 



A. CleveMndi. More pubescent : leaves sessile, narrower, acuminate, margins more 

 revolute : inflorescence leafy : bracts and sepals acute : corolla 4 lines long, equalled by 

 the pedicels : fruit unknown. (When the fruit becomes known.it may refer this recently 

 discovered species to the following section.) — Potrero, San Diego Co., California, Cleve- 

 land. Fl. Sept. 



§ 4. ComarostjCphylis. Leaves coriaceous, evergreen : drupe with granulate 

 or warty surface and a solid few-celled putameu. — C'omarostaphylis, Zucc. 



A. polif olia, HBK. Shrub 5 to 8 feet high, glabrous : leaves linear-lanceolate, pale 

 beneath : flowers in a loose terminal raceme or panicle : calyx-lobes triangular and acute : 

 corolla reddish, ovoid: drujje dark purple, small. — Nov. Gen. & Spec. iii. 277, t. 258; Torr. 

 Mex. Bound. 108. — California, on the southern boundary, and Mexico. 



6. EPIG^A, L. Matfloaver. (Formed of Vm, upon, yrj, the earth, from 

 the mode of growth.) — Prostrate or somewhat creeping; the short slender stems 

 barely shrubby, rusty-bristlj', leafy only toward the summit of the flowering 

 shoots ; the leaves petioled, alternate, thin-coriaceous, veiny, pale green, persistent, 

 round-oval or elliptical, mostly cordate, entire. Flowers in earliest spring, almost 

 sessile in a short and close terminal cluster, bracteate and 2-bracteolate ; the 

 somewhat scale-like persistent bracts equalling the calyx. Sepals ovate-lanceolate 

 and acuminate, nearly scarious and often purplish. Lobes of the corolla oval, 

 either quincuncially imbi'icated in the bud or imbricate-convolute. C:ipsule 

 depressed-globose and somewhat 5-angled, bristly, thin-walled. Seeds numerous 

 on the much-projecting placentas, round-oval, with a close and thin reticulated 

 coat. The flowers are heteromorphous and inclined to be dioecious or dioecio-dimor- 

 phous. Those with fully polliniferous anthers seldom set fruit : their stigmas short, 

 erect, slightly projecting beyond the margin of the o-toothed ring (to the teeth of 

 which they severall}' are adnate) ; the style sometimes longer than the stamens 

 and projecting, sometimes^ shorter and included. Fully fertile flowers on other 

 plants; their style (as in the former sort sometimes long and exserted, sometimes 

 shorter and included) with stigmas elongated and much surpassing the ring, short- 

 linear, glutinous, radiately divergent; their stamens either slightly polliniferous, 

 or reduced to abortive filaments, or even wanting. — Gray, Man. ed. 5, 293, & 

 Amer. Jour. Sci. ser. 3, xii. 74. 



• B. repens, L. (Mayflower, Trailing Arbutus, Ground Laurel.) Flowers mostly 

 numerous or several in the cluster, spicy-fragrant : corolla rose-color to almost white, 

 bearded inside; its tube more or less exceeding the calyx. — Lam. 111. t. 367; Andr. Bot. 

 Rep. t. 102; Bot. Reg. 3, t. 201 ; Brit. Fl. Gard. ser. 2, t. 384. — Gravelly or sandy wood- 

 lands in the shade of evergreens, Newfoundland westward to Saskatchewan, and south to 

 Kentucky and Florida. (The other and very nearly related species is E. Asiatica, Maxim., 

 of Japan.) 



7. GAULTH^RIA, Kalm, L. Aromatic Wintergreex. (Dedicated by 

 Kalm to " Dr. Gaulthier " of Quebec, whose name, as appears from the records, 

 was written Gaultier. The genus therefore should not be written Gunltheria, 

 (Scop.,&c.), nor Gualteria, Gautiera, &c., as by others. If changed at all, the right 



