CHAP. LXIixX. ERICA CER. ARCTOSTA PHYLOS. 1123 
Genus XIV. 
Ly La 
ARCTOSTA’/PHYLOS ddans. Tue Bearperry. Lin. Syst. Decandria 
Monogfnia. 
Identification. Gall. Adans. Fam. ; H. B. et Kunth Noy. Gen, Amer., 3. p. 277.3; Spreng. Syst., 2. 
p. 287. 
Synonymes. U'va-rsi Dod., Tourn. ; Arbutus sp. Lin. 
Derivation. From arktos, a bear, and staphulé, a grape. 
Description, Evergreen undershrubs, natives of Europe and of North and 
South America. 
#1. A. U'va-u’rst Spreng. The common Bearberry. 
Identification. Spreng. Syst., 2. p. 827. 5 Don’s Mill., 3. - 835. 
Synonymes. Arbutus U'va-Girsi Lin. Sp., 566., Fl. Lapp., No. 162., t. 6. £.3., Woodv. Med. Bot., 
194. t.70., Fl. Dan., t.33., Blackw., t.592., Smith Eng. Bot.,714.; A’rbutus buxifodlia Stokes Bot., 
509. ; U'va-trsi buxifdlia Sal. in Gray’s Arr., 2. p.400.; Bearberries, and Bear-whortle-berries, 
Eng.; Barentraube, or Barenbeere, Ger.; Beerenduuif, Dutch. ; la Basserole, Ir. ; Uva d’Orzo, 
Itai. ; Uva de Oso, Span. ; Uva de Urso, Port.; and Uva-ursi in the works of most old botanists. 
Engravings. Lin. FI). Lapp., No. 162. t. 6. f.3.; Woodv. Med. Bot., 194. t. 70.; Fl. Dan., t.33. ; 
Blackw., t. 592.; Engl. Bot., t. 714.; Schmidt Baum., t. 138. ; and our fig. 923. 
Spec. Char, &c. Stems procumbent. Leaves permanent, obovate, quite 
entire, coriaceous, shining. Flowers fasciculate. Drupe5-celled. Leaves 
like those of the common box. Flowers pale red, 
or white with a red mouth, growing in small clusters 
at the extremities of the branches. (Don’s Mill., iii. 
p. 836.) A trailing shrub, a native of North America, 
in the pine barrens of New Jersey, in mountains and 
rocky situations of Canada and New England, and 
in the Island of Unalascha. It is abundant on the 
continent of Europe; as, for example, in Sweden, 
Denmark, and most parts of the north; also in 
Switzerland, Germany, Carniola, Dauphiné, Savoy, 
Siberia, &c. With us, it is common upon dry, heathy, mountainous, and 
rocky places, throughout the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland ; 
also in the north of England and Wales; flowering in May and June; 
and producing red berries, which are ripe in September. The berries 
are filled with an austere mealy pulp, and serve as food for grouse and 
other birds in Britain; and, in Sweden, Russia, and America, they form a 
principal part of the food of bears. The whole plant is powerfully astrin- 
gent: it abounds in the tannin principle ; and, both in Sweden and America, 
it has been used for tanning leather, and dyeing it an ash-grey colour. It 
is also prescribed by rural practitioners in nephritic complaints ; and, on 
the plains of the Mississippi, it is smoked by the Indians as a febrifuge. In 
British gardens, it finds a place among other peat-earth plants ; and, though 
a native of cold and elevated regions, it thrives well in peat, kept moist, in 
the vicinity of London. 

«2. A. aupr'na Spreng. The Alpine Bearberry. 
pir et Spreng. Syst., as 287. ; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 836. 
ynonyme.  A’rbutus alpina Lin. Sp., 566., Gd. Fl. Dan., 73., Smith Engl. Bot., t. j 
PL. Scot, 215. t. 11. fa. b. ; ees: See? ee eee 
Engravings. Engl, Bot., t. 2030.; Lightf. FJ. Scot., 215, t. 11. f. a. b. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stems procumbent. Leaves obovate, acute, wrinkled, ser- 
rated,deciduous. Racemes terminal. Pedicels rather hairy. The fiowers 
grow in reflexed racemes, and are pure white. The berries are black when 
ripe, and of the size of a sloe, with a taste somewhat resembling that of black 
currants, but more mawkish; insomuch, that Linnzeus says the Laplanders 
will scarcely eat them. Haller, on the contrary, thinks the flavour not 
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