580 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
ciliately toothed. Flowers few, terminal, nutant. 
(Don’s Mill.) A very small evergreen shrub. Canada 
to Virginia, in dry woods, on mountains, and in 
sandy places. Height 6in. Introduced in 1762. 
Flowers white; July to September. Berries red; 
remaining on the plant great part of the winter. 
A very pretty little shining-leaved plant, improperly 
termed procumbent, which makes very ornamental ff“) 
edgings in peat soil, kept moist; in which soil alone 
it can be well grown. The leaves, if properly cured, 
make a most excellent tea. 1091. G. procambens. 
« 2. G. SH4'LLon Pursh. The Shallon Gaultheria. 
Identification. Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 1. 283.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 839. 
Engravings. Pursh Sept., 1. fig.; Bot. Mag., t. 2443. ; Bot. Reg., t. 1411.; and our sig. 1092. 
Spec. Char., §c. Procumbent, hairy on the stems. Leaves ovate, subcordate, 
serrated, glabrous on both surfaces, Racemes secund, bracteate, clothed 
with rusty down. Branches warted, clothed with rusty down when young, 
Leaves broad, abruptly acuminated. Pe- 
dicels scaly. Corolla white, tinged with 
red, downy, urceolate, with a closed limb. 
Berries globose, acute, fleshy, purple. 
(Don’s Mill.) A procumbent evergreen 
shrub. North America, on the Falls of the 
Columbia, and near the Western Ocean. 
Height 2 ft. to 3ft. Introduced in 1826. 
Flowers white, tinged with pink ; May. 
Fruit purple ; September. . 
This plant grows in the shade of close 1098. Gs Skiiiva: 
pine forests, where hardly any thing else 
will thrive. The berries are much esteemed by the natives, on account 
of their agreeable flavour. In the North of England, and in Scotland, the 
vlant has already been employed as undergrowth in artificial plantations, for 
:he sake of the shelter and food which it affords for game. 
Genus XVIII. 
EPIGA’A L. Tue Epiteza. Lin. Syst. Decdndria Monogynia. 
Identification. Lin, Gen., No. 550. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 841. 
Synonymes. Memécylum Mich. Gen. 13.; May Flower, Nova Scotia. 
Derivation. From ep?, upon, and gaia, the earth ; the plant creeps upon the surface of the earth. 
Gen. Char. Calyx large, 5-parted, furnished with 3 bracteas at the base. 
Corolla salver-shaped, with a 5-parted spreading limb ; tube villeus inside. 
Stamens 10. Capsule 5-celled, many-seeded. 
Placenta 5-parted. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, ever- 
green; entire. Flowers axillary and terminal, 
in dense racemes.——A shrub, evergreen, creep- 
ing, tufted; native of North America. 
¢, 1. E. re‘pens ZL. The creeping Epigea. 
Adentification. Lin. Sp., 565.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 841.; Lodd. 
Cat., ed. 1836. 
Engravings. Bot. Rep., 102.; Bot. Cab., 160. ; and our jig. 1093. 
Spec. Char., §&c. Branches, petioles, and nerves of 1098. £. repens. 
