30 ERICACEAE. Gaultheria. 



orthography would be Gaultiera.) — 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 : placentas 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-lobed: filaments glabrous : apex of the anthers obscurely 4-pointed. 



G. Myrsinites, Hook. Cespitose-procumbent or depressed, a few incites 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, Graham in Edinb. Phil. Jour. 

 1831, 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 hairy : anthers 4-awned at the summit. 



G. procumbens, L. (Wintergreen, Checkerberry, Boxberry.) 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. 111. t. 367; Andr. Bot. 

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

 Fl. 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 sahl. — Fl. i. 284, t. 12; Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 2843, & Fl. ii. 35 ; Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1. 1411. — Shady woods, Brit. Columbia along aud 

 near the coast to the mountains behind Santa Barbara, California. 



8. ANDE6MEDA, L. (Fancifully named in allusion to the fable of An- 

 dromeda. See the poetical account by Linnaeus, 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, Zenobia (Don), Pieris 

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



§1. Euandro.meda. 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 : placentas 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. 



