BEAR BERRY. 67 
The family of plants bearing the name of Ar- 
butus have for their distinctive marks a five-part- 
ed calyx, an ovate corolla, pellucid at base ; and 
a@ superior, five-celled berry. They are closely 
connected to the Vaccinia or whortleberries, from 
which they differ principally in the situation of 
the berry, which in the Arbutus grows above 
the calyx, and in the Vaccinium below it.—Both 
these genera, at least the American species, prop- 
erly belong to the class Decandria and order Mono- 
gyuia. The Linnean natural order is Bicornes. 
Jussieu has them among his Erice. £32... -a¢ oi, 
The species Uva ursi, Bear’s grape or Bear- / 
berry is known from the rest by its procumbent 
stem and entire leaves.—It trails upon the ground, 
putting out roots from the principal stems, and 
tending upward with the young shoots only. The 
cuticle is deciduous, and peels off from the old 
stems. Leaves scattered, obovate, acute at base, 
attached by short petioles, coriaceous, evergreen, 
glabrous, shining above, paler beneath, entire, the 
margin rounded, but scarcely reflexed, and in the 
young ones pubescent. Flowers in ashort cluster 
on the ends of the branches. Peduncles reflexed, 
furnished at base with a short acute bracte under- 
neath, and two minute ones at the sides. Calyx 
of five roundish segments, of a reddish colour and 
