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EPIGAZA repens. 
Creeping Epigea, or Ground-laurel. 
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DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Erica. Jussieu: gen. 159. Div. J. Germen superum., 
Ericem. Brown prod. 557. 
EPIGZA. Cal. 5-partitus, caliculo 3-phyllo cinctus s. 3-bracteatus. 
Cor. hypocrateriformis, basi tubulosa, limbo patente 5-partito. Stam. non 
exserta, ime corollz inserta; anth. oblonga. Stigma sub5-fidum. Caps. 
5-loc., 5-valy., receptaculo 5-partito. Suffrutex repens sempervirens; folia 
alterna ; flores bracteolati, densé racemosi, azillares et terminales. Jus. lc. 161. 
E. repens, ramis petiolis nervoque hirsutissimis, foliis cordato-ovatis inte- 
gerrimis, corollis cylindricis. Pursh amer. sept. 1. 297. 
Epigza repens. Lin. sp. pl. 1.565. Mill. dict. ed. 8.n. Hort. Kew. 2.71. 
ed. 2. 3. 55. Mich. bor.-amer. 1. 250. Andrews's reposit. 102. Willd. 
sp. pl. 2. 615. Lam. illustr. t. 367. fig. 1. Bigelow fl. bost. 101. 
Epigea. Lin. am. ac. 3.17. Gron. virg. ed. 2. 67. * 
Memecylum. Mitch. nov, pl. gen. XIII. in act. nat. curios. 8. 213; (non 
Mich. nov. gen. ac malé habet Willdenovius.) 
Arbutus foliis ovatis integris, petiolis laxis longitudine foliorum. Gron. 
virg. 49. : ee 
Pyrolz affinis Virginiana repens fruticosa, foliis rigidis, scabritie exaspe- 
ratis, fl. pentapetaloide fistuloso. Pluk. alm. 309. t. 107.f.1. 
Fruticulus repens sempervirens ferrugineo-villosus, caulis alterné ramosus 
ramique teretes ; fol. patentia, membranaceo-rigentia, cordato-elliptica v. 
ovata, obtusa cum mucronulo, willis rufis asperiuscula, immersé venosa, sub- 
tus nitida, supra viridi-rufa, modo biuncialia: petioli strictiusculi, hirsutt, 
teretes supra canaliculati. Racemi azxillares et terminales, congesto-pauci- 
_ flori, raro 1-flori; pedunculi pedicellique brevissimi, bracteis subherbaceis, 
naviculari-subulatis, hirsutis, ad florem terminalem binis atque cum calyculo 
decussantibus, ad ceteros singularibus. Gal gulus bifolius ad basin pedicell 
ter brevioris glabri, bracted exceptus ; foliolis oppositis ovato-lanceolatis, 
membrano-herbaceis, convexis, glaberrimis, cuspidatis, calycem partim inclu- 
dentibus. Flores semunciales magisve, odorem amariusculum ‘non ingraturm 
spirantes. Cal. connivens, bast intrusus, foliolis calyculi similibus, subminori- 
ibe lanioribus. Cor. carneo-albicans: tubus cylindricus calyce limboque 
Jermé duplo longior, intis albo-lanatus + lac. limbi a@quales, oblongo-ovata, 
glabre. Stam. tubo subemicantia: fil. corolla fundo inserta, bast pilosiuscula: 
anth. erecta adnate, dithece, lineares, introrsim sublunulate indéque rimis 
2 longis dehiscentes, dorso fusco-carinate: pollen grumosum, ochroleucum. 
Germ. albo-hirsutum, disco crasso virente 10-dentato insidens : stylus columel- 
lari-filiformis, equans stamina, virens, glaber: stig. 5-dentato-obtusum. 
A small trailing evergreen shrub found in the shade of 
forests from Canada to Carolina, and known in some parts 
of the United States by the name of “ Ground-laurel.” In- 
troduced into England by Mr. Peter Collinson, in 1736. 
