938 “ORD. XVII. Bicornes. -——-ARBUTUS UWA urs?) 
Class Decandria. Ord. Monogynia. . Lin. Gen. Plant. 220. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-partitus, Cor, ovata: ore basi pellucida; 
Bacca 5-loeularis. 
Sp. Ch. A. caulibus procumbentibus, foliis integerrimis. 
THE root is perennial, long, branched, and fibrous: the stems 
are numerous, procumbent, spreading, woody, scarcely a foot in 
length, and seldom divided into branches: the léaves are oblong, 
obtuse, narrowed towards the base, entire, thick or fleshy, smooth, 
without footstalks, of a dingy green colour, and closely surround 
the upper part of the stalk: the flowers are whitish or flesh-coloured, 
and terminate the stems in small clusters upon short slender pedicles: 
the calyx is very small, and divided into five obtuse teeth: the co- 
rolla consists of a single petal, which is tubular, oval, contracted," 
and divided at the margin into five minute reflexed segments: the 
filaments are ten, shetty downy, tapering, and crowned with erect 
reddish anthera: the germen is oval, and placed above the inser- 
tion of the corolla: the style is tapering, longer than the filaments, 
and terminated with a simple stigma: the fruit is a pulpy, round, 
red berry. It is a native of the Northern parts of Britain, and 
flowers in June. 
Professor Murray has not been able to determine whether this 
plant is the dgxov sagean, which is much commended by Galen ” in 
cases of hemoptysis, or the Haas gg used as a general astringent by 
Dioscorides.. It grows in great abundance in different parts of 
Europe and America, particularly in barren. sandy soils; and that 
which is found in dry, lofty, and exposed situations, is preferred * 
for medical use to that which is collected in valleys and shady 
* Our artist, by supposing the contracted state of ihe corolla to be. merely the ef- 
fect of drying, has made it appear too inflated in the atinexed figure. 
b De comp. med. sec. loc. L.7. cs 4. p- 548. Ed. Chart. _ © Mat: Med. L. 4. c 
42. p. 482. Ed. Ver gil, . Girardi be c..p. 454. : 
