Arbutus and Arctostaphylos the anthers have two long horns 
projecting from their back, and the ovary is surrounded by 
a fleshy ring with ten angles; but in this plant the anthers 
have no horns, and are split into four bristle-shaped teeth - 
at their apex, while the base of the ovary is surrounded by 
ten distinct scales. We therefore adopt, without any 
scruple, Mons. Gaudichaud's genus Pernettia, which in 
reality is much more nearly allied to Andromeda and Gaul- 
theria than to Arbutus, particularly to Andromeda myrsinites 
and Gaultheria serpyllifolia, which last is certainly no Vac- 
` cinium. 
Gaudichaud refers to this genus Arbutus pumila, and 
microphylla ; as far as habit and the structure of the flowers 
are concerned, Arbutus pilosa, of Professor Graham, would 
also be referable to Pernettia ; but we incline to believe that 
plant an Andromeda. 
The subject of these observations is a native of the 
Straits of Magellan; we have specimens communicated to 
the late Mr. Donn, of Cambridge, out of Forster's Herbarium, 
others procured by Macrae, off Cape Horn, and frui 
gathered in Staten Island by Mr. Webster, of H. M.S. Chan- 
ticleer. Gaudichaud did not meet with it in his visit to the 
Falkland Islands, but in its place he found plenty of another 
species, Pernettia empeirifolia, which formed a small bus 
covered with eatable berries, and growing at the back of the 
sand-hills wherever a little vegetable mould was collected. 
