grows in Pine barrens. -It is also said to be native of the 
mountains of Carolina. 
Introduced by Mr. Peter Collinson in 1736. Flowers 
with us in April and May. Drawn at the nursery of 
Messrs. Colvill in the King’s Road, Chelsea, where it is 
cultivated in peat-mould; and usually kept in pots, and 
sheltered under the lights of a garden-pit in the winter. 
A small upright bush, seldom exceeding a foot in 
height; branches round leafy subdivided. Leaves, com- 
pared by soine with those of the Box-tree, by others with 1 
those of Thyme, scattered, closish, shortly petioled, oval, 
obtuse, 2-3 lines long, shining on both sides, paler under- 
neath, reflexed at the edge. ,Corymbs terminal, subcapi- 
tate, simple; pedicles one-flowered, minutely pubescent, 
placed on a short peduncle beset by smooth green oblong 
obtuse subimbricate spreading scalelike bractes placed se- 
parately at the foot of each pedicle. Calyx green, some- 
times tinged with red, five-parted, smooth, dinted under- 
neath, segments upright, lanceolate. Corolla white, some- 
times slightly tinged with red on the outside; pefals ovate, 
obtuse, longer than the calyx, sessile (that is, without a- 
guis or petal-foot), spreading. Filaments subulate, longer 
than the corolla, white, uprightly spreading: anthers purple, 
ovate, small, incumbently upright, twin. Style cylindri- 
cal, the length of the stamens; stigma a simple depressedly 
blunted point. Capsule ovate pointed, somewhat wrinkled ; 
the valves opening longitudinally on the inner-side. Seeds 
many, small, ovate. 
We have borrowed the description from the excellent 
ones respectively given by Messrs. Bergius and De La- 
marck. 
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