XLII. ERICA‘CEZ: CLE‘THRA. 5381 
leaves very hairy. Leaves cordate-ovate, quite entire. Corollas cylin- 
drical. Flowers white, tinged with red, very fragrant. (Don’s Mill.) A 
creeping evergreen shrub, Nova Scotia to Carolina, on shady rocks and 
in stony woods, on the sides of hills, and at the roots of pines. Height 
6in. Introduced in 1736. Flowers white, tinged with red, very fragrant ; 
May to July. 
Variety. 
t E. r. 2 rubicinda Swt. Fl. Brit. 2d ser t. 384, has brilliant pink 
flowers. Raised from seed, 1836. 
Succeeds in peat soil, kept rather moist, and protected with a frame or 
hand-glass, or with snow, during very severe frosts. 
Gents XIX. 
Bm | 
PHALEROCA’RPUS G. Don. Tut Puaterocarpus. Lin. Syst. Octan- 
dria Monogynia. 
Identification. Don’s Mill., 3. p. 341. 
Synonymes. Vacctnium Lin. ; Gaulthér/a Pursh ; Oxycéccus Nutt. ; A’rbutus Lam. 
Derivation. From phaléros, white, and karpos, a fruit ; in reference to the colour of the berries. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 4-cleft, bibracteate at the base. Corolla short, campanulate, 
4-cleft. Stamens 8; filaments hairy ?. Hypogynous disk 8-toothed. An- 
thers semibifid. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; small, roundish-oval, acute. 
Flowers axillary, solitary, nearly sessile, white.— A shrub, creeping, ever- 
green, of diminutive size, with hispid branches and the habit of wild thyme. 
2. 1. P. sERPYLLIFO‘LIUS G. Don. The Wild-Thyme-leaved Phalerocarpus. 
Identification. eile Mill., 3. p. 841. 
Synony m Lin. Sp. 500.; Gaulthéréa serpyllifdlia Pursh Sept. 1. p. 283. 
t. 13.; A’rbutus filiférmis Lam. Dict. 1. p. 228.; Oxycdccus hispidulus Pev's. 
Engravings. Michx. Fi. Bor. Amer., 1. t. 23.3 Pursh Sept., t. 13.5 
and our fig. 1094. 
Spec. Char., §c. Berries white, produced in consider- 
able quantities, aromatic, not very acid, and rather 
insipid than agreeable. The shrub has the same 
aromatic taste and smell as Gaulthéria procim- 
bens. (Don’s Mill.) A creeping evergreen shrub. 
Canada to Pennsylvania; and more particularly 
where cedars and other evergreens are predomi- 
nant; and growing always amidst Sphagnum. ® 
Height 6in. Introduced in 1815. Flowers white ; 
April and May. Berries white. 1094. P. serpyllifolius. 
Genus XX. 
CLETHRA L. Tne Crerura. Lin. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. 
i je i 53. 5 ’s Mill., 3. p. 841. 
Pett, Up Sg.Ne Sas DeNRMa he 
Derivation. From kléthra, the Greek name of the alder ; alluding to a supposed resemblance in 
the leaves. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla so deeply 5-parted as to appear pen- 
tapetalous. Stamens 10, enclosed, or nearly so, Anthers behind, at length 
inilexedly pendulous and obverse, ea mucronate at the apex, mutic. 
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