N:, ORD:-ERICACEA 400 
Tribe.—ERICINEA. 
GENUS.—ARCTOSTAPHYLOS,* ADANS. 
SEX. SYST.—DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Ly A- UK Ss 
BEARBERRY. 
SYN.—ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA-URSI, SPRENG.; A. OFFICINALIS, WILLD. ; 
ARBUTUS UVA-URSI, LINN,; DAPHNIDOSTAPHYLIS FENDLERIANA, 
KLOT. 
COM. NAMES.—BEARBERRY, MOUNTAIN BOX, RED BERRY, UPLAND 
CRANBERRY, BEAR’S GRAPE, RED-BERRIED TRAILING ARBUTUS, 
WHORTLEBERRY,;} HETH, UNIVERSE; (FR.) BUSSEROLLE, RAISIN 
D’OURS; (GER.) BARENTRAUBE. 
A TINCTURE OF THE LEAVES OF ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA-URSI. 
Description.—This peculiar boreal shrub is seldom erect except that it throws 
its young shoots upward for from 3 to 8 inches. S¢ems numerous, depressed or 
trailing ; dranches various, the sterile from 2 to 3 feet long and compactly leafy, 
the fertile shorter; dark mahogany color, scaling off in irregular patches; roots _ 
thick, ligneous, and creeping. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, thick, shining, and 
evergreen, turning mahogany color when aged, those of the erect branchlets more 
or less vertical, all oblong spatulate, entire, retuse, and tapering to a short-petioled = 
base. Juzflorescence in few- flowered, terminal clusters or racemes; dracts and bract- : 
eoles persistent, finally becoming rigid; flowers pale, rose-colored, drooping. Calyx Ln 
reddish, persistent, free from the ovary; odes 5, roundish. Corod/a urceolate, pellu- 
cid at the base, deciduous; ébe inflated, hairy inside, hypogynous ; lobes 5, short 
acute, recurved. Stamens 10, included; anthers large, upright, 1 introrse, the cells nee 
opening by terminal pores and appendaged upon the dorsal surface by 2 reflexed 125 
-awns. Ovary 4 to 10 celled; ovules solitary i in each cell. Fruit a glabrous, de- 
pressed-globose berry or drupe, about the size of a pea; fu/p mealy and insipid; 
nutlets 5, when the fruit is baccate, or united firmly into a 5-several celled ston 
when drupaceous ; whether distinct or basse the nutlets are sige ond 1- -nerve xe 
upon the dorsal surface” = ee 
icasen. the cee boreal nly is Soa in Roak oe by 4 
genera, 135 species, and 32 recognized varieties, thus producing half the eri 
-ceous genera of the globe, but only one-eighth of the total number of | specie = 
The order is: characterized as follows: Aig — Be ooes trees, shrubs, and 
