20 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Tribe I.— AUBUTE^E. 

 Corolla deciduous. Fruit a berry, superior. 



GENUS IL-ARCTO ST AVUYIj OS. Adans. 



Calyx free from the ovary, 5- or 4-partite. Corolla hypogy- 

 nous, deciduous, monopetalous, globose- or ovate - urceolate or 

 urceolate-bellsbaped, with as many teeth as there are divisions 

 in the calyx. Stamens 10 or 8 ; filaments short ; anthers bent 

 down, appearing as if affixed by the apex, each one with 2 pores 

 and 2 awns close to the point of attachment. Pruit a berry-like 

 drupe, containing 5 bony 1-seeded pyrenes or stones ; surface of 

 the drupe smooth. 



Small shrubs or undershrubs, with alternate obovate entire or 

 serrate evergreen or deciduous leaves, and pink or white flowers 

 in short terminal racemes. Inflorescence-buds scaly. 



The derivation of the name of this genus of plants is from u^ktoq (arktos), a 

 bear, and (rrafvXr) (staphule), a grape. 



SPECIES I.— ARCTOSTAPHYLOS ALPINA. Sj^e^u/. 



Plate DCCCLXXX. 



Jieich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLXVII. Fig. 4. 

 Arbutus alpinus, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2030. 



Stems procumbent. Shoots of the year glabrous. Leaves 

 rather thin, deciduous, wedgeshaped-obovate or -oblanceolate, nar- 

 rowed into indistinct winged petioles, sub-acute, doubly crenate- 

 serrate in the apical half, glabrous, sparingly ciliated with bristly 

 hairs, shining-green, with the veins impressed above, slightly 

 glaucous and with the veins prominent and forming coarse network 

 beneath. Flower drooping, 2 or 3 together at the summit of the 

 branches of the preceding year, appearing with the young leaves 

 or before them. Pedicels short, longer than the bracts. Bracts 

 scarious, oval, boat-shaped, and ciliated. Corolla broadly ovate- 

 urceolate, with 4 or 5 short reflexed obtuse teeth, which are hairy 

 within. Appendages of the anthers very short. Berry smooth, 

 bluish-black, slightly-shining. 



On heaths and barren places on mountains. Rare. Near the 

 summit of the mountain to the South of Bradoonie, Clova, For- 

 farshire ; on Ben Nevis, near the Lake ; in the Isle of Skye ; in 



