732 DRYAS. [CLASS XII. ORDER HI. 



Habitat. — High moors and alpine situations. Not uncommon in 

 England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. 

 Perennial ; flowering in June and July. 



The Cloudberry is the badge of the Clan Macfarlane. The fruit is 

 much esteemed in almost all northern counties as an extremely useful 

 febrifuge, and is also made into various confections for the use of the 

 table, sauces, &c. So highly esteemed is the Cloudberry by some of 

 our country friends, that we find the " Village Patriarch" thus ex- 

 tolling it — 



" But thou art here, thou rarest Cloudberry 1 

 Oh health restorer ! did he know thy worth. 

 The bilious townsmen would for thee resign 

 His wall-grown Peach, well pleased In moorland earth 

 Thee would he plaflt, thou more than Nectarine, 

 Thou better grape ! and, in thy fruit divine. 

 Quaff strength and beauty from the living bough." 



Elliot. 



GENUS X. PRY'AS.— Linn. Dnjas. 



Nat. Ord, Rosa'ce^. Jess. 



Gen. Char. Calyx eight to ten cleft, persistent. Petals five to 

 eight. Carpels numerous, persistent, inserted into a dry cellular 

 receptacle. Styles lateral, simple, with a feathery stigma. — Name 

 from ^pu?, the oak; from some resemblance of the leaves to that 

 tree, or from ^fvq, signifying woods in general, over which the 

 nymphs called Dryades presided. 

 1. D. octopet*ala, Linn. (Fig. 829.) White Dryas, or Mountain 

 Avens. Leaves crenato-serrate, ovale, obtuse, or sub-cordate. 



English Botany, t. 451.— English Flora, vol. ii. p. 432.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. p. 208. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 98. 



Root strong, branched, woody. Stems short, prostrate, much 

 branched, and matted together. Leaves numerous, in crowded tufts, 

 ovate, or ovate oblong, with an obtuse point, and more or less heart- 

 shaped at the base, a dark smooth shining green above, strongly marked 

 with furrowed lines, beneath white and woolly, with prominent ribs, 

 mostly scattered over with a few stout brown hairs, the margins deeply 

 and more or less bluntly serrated, somewhat rolled back, the footstalk 

 rather long, round, and hairy, having at the base a pair of narrow 

 lanceolate hairy stipules, rarely smooth. Flotver solitary, large, pure 

 white, on a round stalk, mostly with a solitary stipule, and white, with 

 close woolliness, and more or less profusely scattered over with long 

 black gland tipped bristles, as well as the calyx, which is mostly 

 divided to near the base into eight equal linear lanceolate or obtuse 

 segments. Petals elliptic, ovate, spreading, sometimes unequal, mostly 



