SG New Genera and Species of 



Dr. Lindley describe the fruit as from 3 to 9-celled, whereas 

 Ceratiola has but two stamens, and a 2-celled, 2-seeded berry. 

 In that genus, however, the ovary is perhaps many-celled in its 

 young state, or rather is composed of many carpels, all of which 

 are abortive except two, for the short style is divided into nu- 

 merous stigmas, the number of which probably corresponds with 

 that of the cells or carpels. In Corema the fruit is 3-celled. 



Jussieu referred to Ericeae the only genus of this order 

 known to him, but without being satisfied with its station. Nut- 

 tall correctly remarks that Empetreos resemble Ericeae only in 

 their leaves, though I cannot agree with my learned friend in 

 regarding them as closely allied to Conifcraj. Mr. Don, (with 

 whom Lindley seems now to agree) thinks the order holds an 

 intermediate place between Euphorbiaceoc and Celastrinea;. 



The new species here described has a strong resemblance 

 to the E. album a native of Portugal, which D. Don, on ac- 

 count of its 3-celled fruit, has separated from the other species of 

 the genus, under the name of Corema.*. It has much the habit 

 of E. rubrum, WilldA a native of the southern extremity of 

 South America. It differs, however, in its much narrower 

 leaves, which are not woolly on the margin, but merely fringed 

 with short glandular hairs, and in its nearly smooth branches. 

 The scales of the flower also are fewer in number, and of uni- 

 form texture and appearance. 



All the individuals of this species that I saw at Cedar 

 Bridge were probably pistillate, but I could discover none of 

 the fruit, either on the plants or in the sand about them. It 

 may seem remarkable that an evergreen shrub should so lono- 

 have escaped detection, in a region which has been so much 

 explored by botanists as the sandy district of New Jersey ; but 

 many of the plants of those pine barrens are extremely local, 

 and there are still large tracts of the country south of Toms 



* Edinb. New Phil. Mag. 1. c. 



t A very good figure of this species is given in the Botanical Register for 

 August 183G, t. 1783. 



