CHAP. LXIX. 



E1UC\ K CE2E. BRYA'NTHUS. 



1171 



994 



«. 3. O. ere'ctus Pursh. The erect Cranberry. 



Identification Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept.,1. p. 264. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 858. 

 Synonyme. Faccinium erythrocarpum Michx. Fl. Bor. Amer., 1. p. 227.> 



and Lodd. Cat., ed. 1836. 

 Engravings. Wats. Dend.'.Brit., t. 13. ; and our fig. 994. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves oval, acuminated, serrulated, and 

 ciliated. Pedicels axillary. Corolla, before expansion, 

 long and conical, at length revolute. Stem erect. 

 Branches flexuous. Leaves membranous, somewhat 

 hairy. Flowers red. Berries scarlet (Watson says 

 black), quite transparent, and of an exquisite taste. 

 Very different in habit from the other species. (Don's 

 Mill., iii. p. 858.) It is a native of Virginia and Caro- 

 lina, on lofty mountains, where it grows to the height of 

 2 ft. ; flowering in May and June. It was introduced in 

 1806 ; and there are plants at Messrs. Loddiges's, and 

 in other nurseries. It is rather remarkable, that this 

 species has not yet been cultivated in the kitchen- 

 garden, as a fruit shrub. 



App. I. Genera of 'Ericaceae, of which it appears doubtful if any 

 hardy ligneous Species have yet been introduced. 



Genus I. 



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BRYA'NTHUS Gmel 



The Bryanthus. Lin. Syst. Decandria Mono- 

 gynia. 

 Gmel. Sib., 4. p. 133. t. 57. f. 3. ; Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ., 17. p. 160. ; Don's Mill., 3- 



.Erica sp. Thunb. 



Identification. 

 p. 833. 



Synonymes. Andromeda sp. Lin. ; Menzidsm Swartz and Pursh 



Derivation. From bryon, a moss, and anthos, a flower. 



Gen. Char., 8fc. Calyx 5-leaved, imbricate. Corolla deeply 5- parted, spreading. Stamens 10, shorter 

 than the corolla. Filaments flattened, glabrous. Cells of anthers short, awned behind. Stigma 

 obtuse. Capsule 5-celled. — Trailing evergreen shrubs, natives of Asia and North America. 



£« 1. B. Gme v linz D. Don. Gmelin's Bryanthus. 



Identification. D. Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ., 17. p. 160. ; Don's Mill., 995 



3. p. 833. 

 Synonymes. Menziesz'a bryantha Swartz in Lin. Trans., 10. p. 378. t. 30. 



f. b. ; Andr6merifl bryantha Lin. Mant., 238., Pall. Fl. Ross., p. 57. 



t. 74. f. 1. ; Erica bryantha Thunb. Diss., No. 8., Willd. Sp., 2. p. 



386. ; Bryanthus repens serpyllifblia fibre rbseo Gmel. Sib., 4. p. 133. 



t. 57. f. 

 Engravings. Swartz in Lin. Trans., 10. p. 378. t. 30. f. b. ; Pall. Fl. 



Ross., p. 57. t. 74. f. 1. ; Gmel. Sib., 4. p. 133. t. 57. f. 3. ; and our fig. 995. 



Spec. Char., #c. Branchlets pruinose. Leaves with denticulated 

 margins. Peduncles glandular, many-flowered. Anthers mutic. 

 Style filiform. Flowers red. {Don's Mill., iii. p. 833.) A trailing shrub, 

 a native of Kamtschatka, about Port Ochotsk, and of Behring's 

 Island, where it grows in thick masses covering a great extent of sur- 

 face, like wild thyme. Pallas says that he first observed it near the»'Sea 

 of Ochotsk, .in low mossy situations, also in Kamtschatka, and Beh- 

 ring's Island, being the only ornament of the rocks which compose the 

 greater part of its surface ; sometimes also he found it along with 

 E'mpetrum and mosses, in boggy places. This very elegant little 

 plant would form a most desirable introduction for the British erice- 

 tum, from its close general resemblance to the genus Erica. We 

 have been informed that it is already in the Glasgow Botanic 

 Garden, and the climate of that part of Britain is doubtless better 

 adapted to it than that of London ; but if we have been misinformed, 

 and it is not yet introduced, there could not be much difficulty in pro- 

 curing it through the medium of the Botanic Garden of St. Peters- 

 burg or of Upsal. The directors of these gardens, and indeed the 

 directors of botanic gardens generally, are always happy when they 

 can supply any wants of their friends : and the greater the distance of those friends 

 because the articles they are entitled to ask in return, are the more likely to be new 

 them. 



in 3 



the better ; 

 and rare to 



