so ERICACE^. Gauhheria. 



orthography would be GauMera.) — Shrubs or almost herbaceous plants (Asiatic 

 and American) ; with broad evergreen leaves, shining above, and usually spicy- 

 aromatic in flavor, axillary white or rose-colored nodding flowers in early summer, 

 succeeded by red or blackish " berries," consisting of the at length baccate calyx 

 enclosing the capsule. Cells of the anthers opening by a terminal pore, and 

 commonly tipped with two points or awns. Stigma truncate or obtuse, entire. 

 Disk 10-toothed or of 10 scales. Ovary and capsule depressed, umbilicate, com- 

 monly 5-lobed : placentaj ascending, although often borne toward the summit of 

 the short columella. Seeds very many, with a close shining coat. Pedicels or 

 calyx bracteolate. 



* Corolla short- campanulate, 5-Iobed : filaments glabrous : apex of the anthers obscurely 4-poiiited. 

 G. Myrsinltes, Hook. Cespitose-procumbent or depressed, a few inches high : leaves 

 orbicular or ovate, denticulate with minute bristle-tipped teeth (half inch to inch and a 

 half long): pedicels solitary in the axils, very short, .3-5-bracteolate : fruit scarlet, with 

 pine-apple flavor. — Fl. ii. 35, t. 129. Vaccinium humifusum, GT3.\i3.m in Edinb. Phil. Jour. 

 18-31, 8. — Rocky Mountains from Colorado northward and in Utah, and northern borders 

 of California, to Brit. Columbia. One form glabrous or nearly so, with small round leaves ; 

 another with rusty hirsute hairs on the stem and calyx, and larger ovate leaves. 

 # * Corolla ovate or urceolate, 5-toothed : filaments hairj- : anthers 4-awned at the summit. 

 =— «■ G. proctinibens, L. (Wintergreen, Checicerberry, Bo.xberry.) Nearly glabrous 

 and as if herbaceous : slender but ligneous stems extensively creeping, generally under- 

 ground, sending up flowering shoots a span high : leaves crowded towards the top, obovate 

 and oval, mucronate, more or less serrulate with bristly-tipped teeth : pedicels mostly soli- 

 tary in the axils, 2-bracteolate close under the calyx : fruit red, this and the foliage 

 aromatic-tasted, with flavor as of Sweet Birch, but warmer. — Lam. III. t. 367 ; Andr- Bot. 

 Rep- t. 316 ; Bigelow, Med. Bot. ii. 27, 1. 12 ; Bot. Mag. 1. 1966. Gautiera procumhens, Torr. 

 n. N. Y. i. 433. — Low woods under evergreens, Newfoundland to L. Superior and sub- 

 arctic Amer., and through the Atlantic States southward to upper Georgia. 

 "«■ G. Shallon, Pursh. (Salal.) Shrubby, a foot or two high, with rather stout spreading 

 stems : branches, pedicels, and even the corollas glandular-hairy or pubescent : leaves 

 ovate or obscurely cordate, acuminate, strongly serrulate (2 to 4 inches long) : racemes 

 from large both terminal and axillary chartaceous-scaly buds, elongated, many-flowered, 

 secund : scaly bracts persistent : pedicels 2-bracteolate below the middle : corolla large for 

 the genus (3 or 4 lines long), viscid : fruit purple becoming black, eaten by Indians under 

 the name of "shallon" (Lewis & Clark) or salal. — Fl. i. 284, t. 12; Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 284-3, & Fl. ii. 35 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg- t- 1411- — Shady woods, Brit- Columbia along and 



/lear the coa^t tp themountams behind Santa Barbara, California. 

 8. ANDR^MEDi^ JX (Fancifully named in allusion to the fable of An- 

 dromeda. See the poetical account by Linnwus, under the original species, in 

 Fl. Lapp. 126.) — Shrubs ; with evergreen or deciduous and broad or rather nar- 

 row mostly petioled leaves, and umbellate-fascicled or paniculate racemose flowers, 

 in spring or early summer ; all of the northern hemisphere. Calyx naked at 

 base, usually very early open in the bud, 5-parted or of nearly separate sepals, 

 the edges of which do not overlap even at the base. Corolla white or rose-color. 

 — Gray, Man. ed. 2, 253, & ed. 5, 295. Andromeda, Zenohia (Don), Pieris 

 (Don), & Lyonia (Nutt), Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 587. 



§1. Efandromeda. Corolla globose-urceolate : calyx small, deeply 5-parted, 

 early open : filaments bearded and not appendaged : anthers short ; each cell 

 surmounted by a slender ascending awn : placentte attached next the summit of 

 the columella : seeds turned in all directions, oval, with a smooth and shining 

 crustaceous coat. — Andromeda, Don, DC, Benth. & Hook. 



