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and smooth, shining above, pale beneath, margin en- 

 tire, thick or rounded, and nearly obtuse. -^ 

 Flowers nearly terminal in a small racemose clus- 

 ter, from silc to twelve together, of a pale, rosy, flesh 

 colon Peduncles shorter than the flowers, colored, 

 reflexed, with some minute acute bracts, two ojf which 

 in the middle. Calix colored, with five rounded 

 acute segments. Corolla ovate, urceolate, white with 

 a rosy tinge, transparent at the base, contracted above, 

 hairy inside, with five acute, short, and reflexed scg- 



or teeth. Ten equal stamina inserted at the 

 base of the corolla, with hairy, short, cuneate fila- 

 ments, anthers equal in length, bifid, each part with 

 two pores. Germ round, style straight, longer than 

 the stamina, stigma obtuse. A black indented and 

 persistent ring around the base of the germ, called 

 nectary or gynophore. Berries globular, depressed, 

 of a scarlet color, pulp insipid, mealy, five seeds al- 

 most coalescent together. 



HISTORY — The G. Arbutus is very near to VaC' 

 ciniumy (whortleberry,) differing chiefly by the free 

 calix and berry, and to Andromeda, which has a cap- 

 sul instead of a berry for fruit. It is divided into two 



ra.) 1. Unedo 



(bj 



O 



JIairaniay a smooth five seeded berry. To this 

 last belongs our actual species. Arhutus is an an- 

 cient name, Mahania is dedicated to the French phi- 

 losopher Mairan, Uva-Ursi means Bear's-grape in 

 Latm. It was known under this last name to the 



Greeks, and Galen mentions it as a medical plant. 



