1753 



* ARBUTUS piocera. 



Tall Arbutus, or Strawberry Tree. 



dp:candria moiVog rA7.-i. 



Nat. ord. Ericace^, Juss. {Introduction to the Natural Sijstern of 

 Botany, p. 182.) 



ARBUTUS.— Supra, vol. 2.fol. 113. 



A.procera ; foliis obloiigis serratis serrulatis integrisque glabrls, petiolis calvis, 

 racemis terminalibus paniculatis secuntlis. 



A. procera, Douglas Herb. 



Rami juvenes glaucescentes, adulti rufo-castanei, glahri, salvls vegetissi- 

 mis qui hispidi sunt; epidermide Jirmd non deglubente. Folia in ramis 

 surculosis oblonga, utrinque avgustata, diqjlicato-serrata, petiolis hispidis ; 

 ramulorum oblonga, nunc cordata, Integra vel irregidariter serrulata ; pe- 

 tiolis fere unciam longis. Racemi tomentosi,paniculati, terminules, sccundi ; 

 bracteis ovatis, concavis, glahris. Corollae albce, leviter herbaccce, ovatce, 

 medio paululum co)istrictce, basi obtusce et obscure decem-gibbosce ; limbo 

 revoluto. Fructus juniores subrotundi, leviter obouati, tuberculati more 

 Unedonis. 



A small tree found by the late unfortunate Douglas iu 

 the mountainous woody parts of the North West Coast of 

 North America, and introduced by the Horticultural Society 

 in 1825. 



In the Gardens it forms an evergreen bush, with a fine 

 broad glossy foliage, and a very vigorous appearance ; but 



* The Arbutus of Virgil and Horace was uiuloulnedly the modern Strawberry 

 Tree. De Theis says the word has been formed from the Celtic ar rough, and 

 boise a bush, in consequence of the astringency of its /Vm^V. He considers that 

 the term horrida, applied by Virgil to his Arbutus, has equally, in this case, the 

 signification of austere. 



