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Moray ; Ben Wy vis, and several other places in lloss-sliirc ; not 



uncommon in Sutherland, and in the Isle of Hoy, Orkney ; llonas 



nil], Slietland. The specimen figured in "English Botany" was 



said to be found near the head of Loch Traig, Perthshire, by Mr. 



G. Don ; but I cannot find any indication of its recent occurrence 



in that county. 



Scotland. Shrub. Early Summer. 



Stems variable in length, rather thick, with smooth brown bark, 

 splitting ofi" in patches, and somewhat scaly ; young shoots red. 

 Leaves crowded, 4 to 1:^ inch long, rugose above, often tinged with 

 red, obovate, gradually attenuated into a wedgeshaped base, which 

 passes imperceptibly into the very short petiole. Elowers about 

 J inch long, white tinged with green. Anthers chocolate-brown. 

 Berry about the size of a black currant, bluish-black. 



Alpine Bearherry. 



French, Arhousier des Alpes. German, Bdrentrauhe. 



The common name of Bearberry may have been given to this plant either from 

 the notion that bears eat the fruit, or from its very acerb and unpleasant nature. 



SPECIES II.— A R C T O S T A P H Y L O S U V A-U RSI. Wimm. 



Plate DCCCLXXXI. 



Reich. Ic. FI. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCXLVII, Fig. 3. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1706. 

 Arbutus Uva-ursi, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 714. 



Stems procumbent ; shoots of the year pubescent. Leaves 

 coriaceous, evergreen, obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse or sub-acute, 

 very shortly stalked, entire, glabrous, thickly ciliated with very 

 short woolly hairs, smooth and dark shining-green, with the veins 

 slightly impressed above, pale-green and with the veins prominent 

 and forming a coarse network beneath, minutely dotted on both sides 

 when dry. Elowers drooping, aggregated in short crowded racemes, 

 of from 3 to 15 flowers, at the apex of the branches of the pre- 

 ceding year, appearing before the young leaves. Pedicels short, 

 about as long as the bracts. Bracts scarious, lanceolate, ciliated. 

 Corolla ovate-urceolate, with 4 or 5 short reflexed obtuse teeth, 

 Avhich are hairy within. Appendages of the anthers nearly as 

 long as the filaments. Berry smooth, scarlet-red, shining. 



On heaths and barren places in hilly districts. Not uncommon. 

 Erom Derby, York, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, northward 

 to Orkney and Shetland. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Early Summer. 



