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* ARCTOSTAPHYLOS tomentösa. | 
Downy Bearberry. 
DECANDRIA MONOGY NIA. 
Nat. ord. Emicez, Juss. (Introduction to the Natural System of 
Botany, p. 182.) 
ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, Adanson. Omnia Arbuti, sed Drupa levis, 
composita, putamine pluriloculari, loculis monospermis. Frutices. 
A. tomentosa ; ramis tomentosis sepius setoso-hispidis, foliis ovatis acutis coria- 
ceis junioribus tomentosis, racemis brevibus compositis, bracteis inferioribus 
herbaceis linearibus racemosis, fructu depresso. 
Arbutus tomentosa. Pursh. fl. amer. sept. 1. 282. Hooker & Arnott in Beech. 
Voy. 1. 144. 
a. hispida ; ramis setoso-hispidis tomentosis. Hooker Fl. Bor. Am. 2. t. 130. 
‚f. 1. Bot. Mag. t. 3320. 
B. nuda ; ramis tomentosis. Hooker l. c. f. 4. 
A curious and very rare hardy evergreen shrub, native of rocky 
places on the west side of North America, from Pugets Sound in 
the north to California and the Mexican mountains in the south. 
It requires to be cultivated in peat and loam, and in a sheltered 
situation, when it flowers in March; Dr. Hooker informs us that at 
Glasgow it is kept in the greenhouse. Our specimens were obligingly 
communieated from the very select collection of William Harrison, 
Esq., of Cheshunt, where it has been kept in the open air for about 
four years, and where alone it has as yet flowered in England. © 
e quite agree with Dr. Hooker in considering the plant which 
occurs without any bristly hairs upon its branches as a mere variety 
of this. But we possess two others, like it in habit, which it is 
important to distinguish. These are E 
1. Arctostaphylos cordifolia ; ramis tomentosis, foliis oblongis obtusis sub- 
cordatis coriaceis subtus tomentosis supra nitidis, racemis brevibus compositis, 
bracteis inferioribus foliaceis oblongis eoriaceis racemi longitudine, fructu « . - 
On the north-west coast of America, Mr. Menzies. ; 
2. Arctostaphylos glauca; glabra, glauca, foliis ovato-oblongis acutis coria- 
ceis basi obtusissimis, racemis brevibus compositis, bracteis inferioribus squamee- 
formibus, fructu ovato. 
California, Douglas. 
1 favourites among Collectors 
There are no plants more genera ne ith Heaths 
than the species of this Natural Order Ericez, beginnin th 
at one ee; of the series and passing through Andromedas, Vaccini- 
ums and Azaleas to Kalmias and Rhododendrons at the other. It is, 
however, very remarkable, that notwithstanding the extensive t 
merce of England, the zeal of her merchants, and the enterprize © 
NOUO leat A 
is a literal translation of the 
* The English name Bear-berry, or Bear-grape, 
Greek words of which this name is composed. 
