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WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 



urinary organs ; they are collected in New England for the supply of 

 the drug market. The plant is also found in the Northern portions of 

 the old world, and is used in Iceland to produce a brown or black dye. 

 According to Dr. Torrey, the name Uva-ursi is in some places corrupt- 

 ed into " Universe." * 



4. GAULTHE'RIA, Kalm. Checkerberry. 



[Dedicated to Dr. Gaullhier, or Gautier, a French Botanist, of Quebec] 



Calyx 5-cleft, 2-bracteolate at base. Corolla cylindrical-ovoid or a lit- 

 tle urn-shaped, 5-toothed. Stamens 10, included ; anther-cells each 2- 

 awned at summit, opening by a terminal pore. Capsule depressed-glo- 

 bose, 5-celled, many-seeded, enclosed by the red berry-like calyx. Suf- 

 fruticose humble evergreens ; flowers axillary, solitary. 



1. G. procum'bens, L. Stem creeping, root-like ; branches ascending, 

 leafy at summit ; leaves cuneate-obovate, obscurely serrate ; flowers few, 

 nodding. 



Fig. 145. The Checkerberry (Gaultheria procumbens). 146. A partially ripe fruit. 

 147. A ripe fruit cut open, showing the dry capsule invested with the enlarged fleshy 

 calyx. 



