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Cedar bridge ; but always without flowers and 
seeds. It must blossom in winter or very sel- 
dom. Torrey only saw the flowers dry and in 
a garden and omits to state the tipie, his ac- 
count is however very good. It is a small ever- 
green shrub 5 to 10 inches high, much branch- 
ed and growing in patches like the Hudsonia. 
596. Ceratiola ericoides Mx. and all bo- 
tanists, Hooker bot. mag. *2 758. From Caro- 
lina to Florida, well described by Michaux, El- 
liot, Hooker &c. I have many specimens, in 
which the leaves are mostly fallen as in the dry 
Heaths. 
597. Empetrum pxjrpitreum Raf. E. nigrum 
Mx, and all our Amer. botanists, not of Lin. 
and Europeah bot. E. rubrum Lapilaye fl. — 
Procumbent smooth, leaves scattered crowded, 
lower patent, upper imbricate, oblong linear 
sessile uninerve obtuse flat on both sides, thick- 
ish, berries purple, sessile equal to the leaves 
and costate — in Canada, Labrador, Newfound- 
land, White Mountains, Lake Superior, near 
the rocky shores. Michaux who first noticed 
this blended it with the boreal sp. of Europe, 
and has been followed by all our subservient 
botanists except Lapilaye who has blended it 
with E. rubrum of Austral America in his New- 
foundland Flora. My specimen is from La- 
brador and has red berries strikingly like those 
of Phytolaca ! Those of our Botanists who saw 
the berries are few, they mostly copy Michaux! 
is there a sp. in boreal America with black ber- 
ries ? My sp. is perfectly distinct, the branch- 
es are terete smooth but sulcate among the 
leaves, these are only 2 or 3 lines long, with a 
single nerve beneath not at ail revolute and 
hardly any verticillate ; the flowers and berries 
