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^ARCTOSTAPHYLOS toment6sa. 

 Downy Bearherry. 



DECANDRIA MOKOGYKIA. 



Nat. Old. EricE/E, Juss. {Introduction to the Natural Sy stein of 

 Botany, p. 182.) 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, Adanson. Omnia Arhuti, sed Drnpa Isevis, 

 composita, putamine pluriloculari, loculis monospermis. Frutices. 



A. tomentosa ; ramis tomentosis sasplus setoso-hispidis, foliis ovatis acutis coria- 



ceis juniorlbus tomentosis, racemis brevibus compositis, bracteis inferioribus 



herbaceis linearibus racemosis, fructu depresso. 

 Arbutus tomentosa. Pursh.Ji. amer. sept. 1. '282. Hooker $^ Arnott in Beech. 



Vo7j. 1. 144. 

 o. hispida ; ramis setoso-hispidis tomentosis. Hooker Fl. Bor. Am. 2. t. 130. 



/. 1. Bot. Mag. t. 3320. 

 ft. nuda ; ramis tomentosis. Hooker I. c.f. 4. 



A curious and very rare hardy evergreen shrub, native of rocky 

 places on the west side of North America, from Puget's 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 ; T)r. Hooker informs us that at 

 Glasgow it is kept in the greenhouse. Our specimens were obliginglv 

 communicated from the very select collection of William Hari-isoii, 

 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. 



We quite agree with Dr. Hooker in considering tlie plant which 

 occurs without any bristly hairs upon its brauclies as a mure vaiiety 

 of this. But we possess two others, like it in habit, which it is 

 important to distinguish. These are 



1. Arctostaphylos cordifolia ; ramis tomentosis, foliis oblongis obtusis sub- 

 cordatis coriaceis subtus tomentosis supra nitidis, racemis brevibus compositis, 

 bracteis inferioribus foliaceis oblongis coriaceis 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 squamae- 

 form ibus, fructu ovato. 



California, Douglas. 



There are no plants more general favourites among Collectors 

 than the species of this Natural Order Ericese, beginning with Heaths 

 at one end 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 com- 

 merce of England, the zeal of her merchants, and the enterprize of 



* The English name Bear-berry, or Bear-grape, is a literal translation of the 

 Greek words of which this name is composed. 



