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fpreading into a head, with many fmall and very 
flexible branches, covered with alight coloured bark, 
and cloathed with oval fmooth leaves, of a pale green 
colour. The flowers are produced at the extreme 
ends of the former year’s fhoots; they are of an 
herbaceous colour and make but little appearance, 
but are fucceeded by oval berries, changing fome- 
what yellowifh when ripe. 
E P I G I A, 
TRAILING ARBUTUS. 
Clafs io. Order i. Decandria Monogynia. 
'T’HE Empalement is double, approximated, and permanent. 
The exterior confifls of three leaves, which are ovate-lanc- 
ed, and lharp pointed; the exterior largeft. 
The interior is five-parted and eredt; a little longer than 
the exterior: the leaf-lets are lanced and fharp pointed. 
The Cotolla is compofed of one pitcher-form petal. The tube 
is cylindrical, rather longer than the calyx, and hairy within. 
The border is fpreading and five-parted, with ovate-oblong 
lobes. 
The Filaments are ten, thread-form, the length of the tube and 
affixed to the bafe of the corolla. The Antherce are oblong 
and acute. 
The Germen is globofe and villous. The Style is thread-form, 
and the length of the ftamina. The Stigma is obtufe and 
fomewhat five-cleft. 
The Seed-veJJel is a capfule, fomewhat roundifh, depreffed, five 
fided, five cell’d, and five valv’d. 
The Seeds are many and roundifh. The receptable large and 
five-parted. 
There is but one Species of this Genus , viz. 
Epig^ea repens. Trailing Arbutus . 
This grows naturally upon northern hills, or moun- 
tains, with trailing ilirubby ftalks, putting out roots 
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