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XXII. Some Account of the Chiogenes Serpj llifolia, or Snow- 

 berry, a Fruit nearly allied to the Cranberry. By Richard 

 Anthony Salisbury, Esq. F. R. S. fyc. Secretary. 



Read Dec. 6, 1813. 



Gaultheria Serpyllifolia. Pursh Fl North. Amer. I. p. 283. 



13. Vaccinium Hispidulum. Michaux Fl Bor-Amer.p. 228. 

 t. 23. Kalm Res. 3. p. 37. Linn. Sp. PL ed. 2. p. 500. exclusis 

 synonymis. Oxycoccus Hispidulus. Per. Syn. l.p.419. Arbutus 

 Thymifolia. Soland. in Hort Kew. 1. ed. 2. p. 72. Arbutus Fili- 

 formis. Lamarck in Encycl. Bot. 1. p. 228. 



This trailing plant, which I had the pleasure of bringing 

 to the Horticultural Society in July last, with ripe fruit upon 

 it, differs so materially from those, to which it is allied, as 

 to constitute a distinct genus ; and I have named it Chio- 

 genes, or Snoivberry, from the colour of its berries, as well 

 as from its flowering, in its native land, soon after the snow 

 is melted. 



In the first edition of Hortus Kewensis, it is said to have 

 been introduced by Dr. John Fothergill about 1776; 

 but it was in this country long before, and given to him by 

 Mr. Jonathan Laycock, one of his quaker friends, and 

 my maternal grandfather; who received it as early as 1760 

 from Nova Scotia, and who cultivated it in his garden at 

 Shawhill, near Halifax, in Yorkshire, where it produced fruit 

 abundantly. 



