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Portuguese, Uva de urso; and by most old botanists, Uva- 
ursi. Leaves like those of box. Flowers pale red, or white 
with a red mouth, growing in small clusters at the extremi- 
ties of the branches. The leaves have been much celebrated in 
calculous and nephritic complaints, and other disorders of the 
urinary passages ; the dose is half a drachm of the powder of 
the leaves every morning, or 2 or 3 timesaday. The trials, 
however, made in this country by no means answered expecta- 
tion. Perhaps, upon the whole, it will be found no better than 
other vegetable astringents ; some of which have long been used 
by the country people in gravelly complaints, and with very 
great advantage. On the plains of the Mississippi, the Indians 
smoke the leaves under the name of Sacacommis, and consider 
them of great medicinal virtue. But whatever may be its medi- 
cinal qualities, the whole plant is certainly very serviceable in 
dying an ash-colour, but particularly in tanning leather. In this 
view, it may deserve attention in those countries where whole 
mountains are covered with it. The berries are red when ripe, 
filled with an austere mealy pulp; they serve as food for grouse 
and other game. 
Bear-berries. Fl. May, June. Britain. Shrub trailing. 
2 A. atvina (Spreng. syst. 2. p. 287.) stems procumbent ; 
Jeaves obovate, acute, wrinkled, serrated, deciduous; racemes 
terminal. h. H. Native of Denmark, Switzerland, Dauphiny, 
Savoy, Siberia, &c. In many places of the Highlands of Scot- 
land, in dry barren moors. Nothing is more common, says 
Linnzus, in all the Lapland alps, in Dalekarlia, from their tops 
to their bases, round the White Sea, especially in very sandy 
places. Itis also found in Canada, and the more northern parts 
of America, Aleutian Islands, &c, A’rbutus alpina, Lin. spec. 
566. Oed. fl. dan. 73. Smith, engl. bot. 2030. Lightf. fl. scot. 
215. t. 11. f. a. b. Pedicels rather hairy. The flowers grow 
in reflexed racemes, and are pure white. The berries are black 
when ripe, and of the size of a sloe, with a taste somewhat 
resembling that of black currants, but more mawkish, insomuch 
that Linnzus says the Laplanders will scarcely eat them. ler, 
on the contrary, thinks the flavour not unpleasant. Mr. Miller 
describes them as of a pleasant taste, so as frequently to be 
eaten by the inhabitants of those countries where the plant grows 
wild. 
Alpine Bear-berry. Fl, April, June. Scotland. Shb. trailing. 
3 A. Ponironia (H. B. et 
Kunth, nov. gen. amer. 3. 
277. t. 25.) erect; leaves linear- 
lanceolate, acute, with quite en- 
tire and revolute margins, cori- 
aceous, glabrous above, but 
downy and glaucescent beneath. 
h. F. Native of the temperate 
parts of Mexico, near Villalpan- 
do. Andrómeda ledifdlia, Humb. 
prol. p.41. A much branched 
shrub. Racemes terminal, erect, 
an inch long, downy. Flowers 
nodding. Corolla scarlet (f. 139.) 
Polium - leaved Bear-berry. 
Shrub 4 to 6 feet. 
4 A. ctavce’scens (H. B. et 
Kunth, 1: c. p. 278.) erect ; 
leaves lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, submucronate, quite entire, 
coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, but downy and glauces- 
cent beneath ; racemes terminal, solitary, erect; flowers secund. 
h. F. Native of Mexico, between Guanaxuato and Valen- 
ciana. Racemes 3 inches long, beset with glandular villi. Co- 
rollas scarlet. ? 
Glaucescent Bear-berry. 
FIG, 139. 
Shrub. 
ERICACE®. XXXV. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. 
XXXVI. PERNETTYA. 
5 A. pu'ncens (H. B. et Kunth, 1. c. p. 278. t. 259.) leaves 
ovate-oblong, acute, mucronate, rather pungent, quite entire, 
coriaceous, clothed with fine down on both surfaces ; racemes 
short, at first terminal, but at length lateral. h.F. Native of 
Mexico, in high places near Moran and Villalpando. A dwarf, 
much branched shrub. Branchlets angular, downy. Pedicels 
approximate, fastigiate. Corollas white. 
Pungent-leaved Bear-berry. Shrub 1 foot. 
6 A.? Hooxe‘rr; branches prostrate, rather downy; leaves 
petiolate, permanent, oval or obovate, coriaceous, shining, mi- 
nutely reticulated, mucronately pungent, smoothish, finely mar- 
gined, almost quite entire; racemes terminal, short; flowers 
bracteate. h.F. Native of Chili. A’rbutus púngens, Hook. 
et Arn. in Beech, voy. pt. bot. 144. Habit of 4. ùva trsi, and 
with the leaves of the same size. Flowers small, urceolate; 
young leaves white from down beneath, more or less ser- 
rated. 
Hooker’s Bear-berry. Shrub prostrate. 
Cult, The hardy species of this genus grow well in a mix- 
ture of sand, loam, and peat, or in a peat border. They are 
increased by layers, put down in the spring. The green- 
ene kinds require the treatment of other hardy green-house 
shrubs. 
XXXVI. PERNE’TTYA (named after M. Pernetty, author 
of a history of his voyage to the Falkland Islands). Gaud. in 
Freyc. voy. p. 454. t. 67. 
Lin. syst. Decdndria, Monogyjnia. Calyx inferior, 5-parted. 
Corolla globose: limb 5-parted, revolute. Stamens 10, almost 
hypogynous, inclosed ; filaments thickened at the base ; cells of 
anthers bifid, and dehiscing at the apex. Ovarium free, de- 
pressed, globose, 5-celled; cells many-seeded. Hypogynous 
scales or glands 10, 3-lobed, forming a ring round the ovarium, 
and alternating with the stamens. Style terminal, short. Stigma 
convex, obsoletely 5-lobed. Berry propped by the rather fleshy 
calyx. Seeds minute, oblong-ovate.—Small, much branched 
shrubs, with small alternate approximate leaves; axillary, soli- 
tary, pedunculate, drooping white flowers, and bracteate pedun- 
cles. This genus agrees with Epacrideze in the presence of 
hypogynous scales. 
1 P. empetriro't1a (Gaud. l. c. t. 67.) much branched, dif- 
fuse; leaves alternate, distich, oblong, quite entire; flowers 
lateral, solitary, drooping. h. F. Native of the Falkland 
Islands. A’rbutus empetrifélia, Lin. suppl. p. 239. Pers. 
syn. 1, p. 483. A. pumila? Willd. spec. 3. p. 619. Pers. 
ench, 1. p. 483. Andrómeda empetrifolia, Lam. dict. 1. p. 
155. Bruyère a feuilles poinstues, Pernetty, voy. 2. p. 64. 
Flowers white. Leaves like those of E’mpetrum. 
Crow-berry-leaved Pernettya. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 
2 P. mucrona`ra (Gaud. in ann. sc. 5. p. 102.) leaves ovate, 
cuspidate, denticulately serrulate, stiff, shining on both surfaces ; 
pedicels axillary, bracteate, about equal in length to the leaves. 
h.H. Native of Terra del Fuego, Cape Horn, and Straits of 
Magellan. Lindl. bot. reg. 1675. A’rbutus mucronata, Lin. 
fil. suppl. p. 239. Forst. in comm. goet. 9. p. 31. Graham in 
bot. mag. t. 3093. Lam. ill. t. 366. f. a. Lodd. bot. cab. 
1848. Flowers white, drooping. 
Mucronate-leaved Pernettya. 
2 to 3 feet. 
3 P. micropuy’tia (Gaud. l. c.) leaves ovate, acute, serrated ; 
pedicels short, axillary. h. H. Native of the Straits of Ma- 
gellan. A’rbutus microphylla, Forst. in comm. geet. 9. p. 32. 
Willd. spec. 2. p. 619. Arbutus serpyllifolia, Lam. Flowers 
white, drooping. 
Smali-leaved Pernettya. Shrub 2 to 3 feet. 
4 P. myrsinitis; leaves ovate-lanceolate, serrated, scat- 
Fl. May. Clt. 828. Shrub 
