"Gaultheria" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... detect no evidence of elevation, or any Tertiary formations or volcanic action. The Organ Mountains are from six to seven thousand feet in height; and I am only a little surprised at their bearing the marks of glacial action. For some temperate genera of plants, viz., Vaccinium, Andromeda, Gaultheria, Hypericum, Drosera, Habenaria, inhabit these mountains, and I look at this almost as good evidence of a cold period, as glacial action. That there are not more temperate plants can be accounted for by the isolated position of these mountains. ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin - Volume I (of II) • Charles Darwin
... Michelia, the Indian representatives of the Magnolias of North America, several arboreous myrtaceae and ternstromiaceae, the most common of which is the camelia-like Gordonia Ceylanica.[1] These and Vaccinia, Gaultheria, Symploci, Goughia, and Gomphandra, establish the affinity between the vegetation of this region and that of the Malabar ranges, the ...
— Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and • James Emerson Tennent |
