CHAP, LXIX. ERICA‘CEX.  ARBUTUS. IELZ 
Genus XIII. 

A'RBUTUS Camer. Tut Arsvurtus, or STRAWBERRY TREE, Lin. Syst. 
Decandria Monogynia. 
Identification. Camer. Epit., p. 163.; Gertn. Fruct., 59. ; Tourn. Inst., 368. ; Juss. Gen., 160.; H. B 
et Kunth Nov. Gen. Amer., 3. p. 279.; Adans. Fam. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 834. 
Synonymes. Andrachne Clus.; A’rbutus sp. Lin. Gen., No. 750., Schrad. Gen., 750.; Arbousier 
Fr. ; Sandbeere, Ger. ; Abbatro, Ital. 
Derivation. From ar bois, austere bush, Celtic ; in allusion to the austere quality of the fruit. 
Description, §c. Robust evergreen shrubs, or low trees; natives of Europe, 
Asia, and North and South America; and, in British gardens, considered as 
some of the most ornamental of hardy evergreen shrubs. They are of easy 
culture, in sandy loam, or loam and peat; and they are readily propagated, 
the common kinds by layers, cuttings, or seeds, and the rarer and tenderer 
sorts by grafting on those that are more common and hardy. All the species 
have the outer bark more or less tinged with red. Plants, in British nurseries, 
are from 6d. to 2s. 6d. each. At Bollwyller and New York they are green- 
house plants. 
a ¢ 1. A, U'Nepo LZ. The Unedo Arbutus, or Strawberry Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 566, ; Mill. Icon., t. 48, ; Cam. Epit., 1681. ; Barrel. Icon., t. 674.; Eng. Bot., 
t. 2377. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 134.; Eng. Flora, 2. p. 254.; FL Hib, p. 182. ; 
Synonymes. L’ Arbousier commun, Arbousier des Pyrénées, or Fraisier en Arbre, Fr. ; Erdbeereartige 
Sandbeere, Ger.; Komaa, Mod. Greek. f 
Engravings. Mill. Ic. t. 48; Barrel. Ic., t. 674; Eng. Bot., t. 2377 ; and our fig. 919. 
Spec. Char., §c. Arboreous. Branchlets clothed with glandular hairs. Leaves 
oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, serrulated. Flowers nodding. Peduncles 
smooth. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 834.) 
A native of the south of Europe, as 7 919 
of Spain, Italy, and Greece ; and of fi 
Asia, in Palestine, and many other 
parts. It is also found in the west 
of Ireland, in the county of Kerry, 
near the Lake of Killarney, on bar- 
ren limestone rocks, where the 
country people eat the fruit. 
Varieties. The following forms of this 
species are given in Don’s Miller, and 
are to be procured in the principal sco 
London nurseries. : 
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a @ A. U.1 dlbus Ait. Hort. 3<£57 
Kew., ii. p..71.— Flowers 8 
white. This is the common 
sort, raised in nurseries by 
seed. The flowers are sometimes of a greenish or yellowish-white, 
and sometimes reddish. The colour of the fruit also varies in a 
similar manner. 
a 2 A. U. 2 ruber Ait. Hort. Kew., ii. p. 71.— Flowers reddish. This is 
the handsomest variety in cultivation. It is commonly propagated 
by layers, by cuttings, or by grafting on the species. Mackay men- 
tions a single tree of this variety near the entrance to Glengariff, 
growing on red slate. 
# A. U.3 plenus Ait. Hort. Kew., ii. p. 71.— Flowers semidouble. 
# A. U. 4 schizopétalus. — Corolla cut into more than the number (5) 
of segments constant to the corolla of the species. 
# A. U. 5 integrifolius. — Leaves entire. (Sims Bot. Mag., t. 2319.) 



