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The infide bark and keys of Afh, are accounted 
good to promote urine. 
GAULTHERIA. 
GAULTHERI A, or MOUNTAIN TEA, 
Oafs io. Order i. Decandria Monogynia. 
T H E Empalement is double, 'approximate and permanent. 
The exterior two leaved and fhorter: the leaves femi- 
ovate, concave and obtufe. 
The interior one leaved, five-cleft and bell-fhaped: the 
fegments femi- ovate. 
The Corolla is monopetalous, ovate and half five cleft: the 
border fmall and revolute. 
A Nettariuw of ten corpuficules, which areawl-fliaped, erefr, 
very ihort, and furrounding the germen within the ftamina. 
The Filaments are ten, awl-ihaped, incurved, fhorter than the 
corolla, and inferted in the receptacle. The Anthem are 
two horned : the horns bifid. 
The Getmen is roundifh and depreffed. The Style cylindrical 
and the length of the corolla. The Stigma is obtufe. 
The Seed-vejfel is a capfule, roundifh, obtufe five-fided, depref- 
ed, five cell’d, and five valv’d ; covered on all fides by the 
interior empalement, and becoming a roundifh coloured ber- 
ry, pervious at the apex. 
The Seeds are many, fomewflat ovate, angled and bony. 
■ There is but one Species of this Genus , viz. 
Gaultheria procumbens. Canadian Gaul™ 
theria , or Mountain Tea . 
This is a very fmall fhrubby plant, with {lender 
items, feldom rifing above five or fix inches in height; 
having, at their tops, four or five oval ever-green 
leaves, which are marked with a few fmall points or 
ferratures upon their edges. The flowers come out 
frpm the bofom of the leaves, of a white colour, 
and 
