CHAP. LXIX. 



ERICA CK2E. y/llBUTUS. 



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Genus XIII. 



J'RBUTUS Camcr. 



The Arbutus, or Strawberry Tree. Lin. St/st. 

 Decandria Monogjnia. 



Identification. Camer. Epit., p. 163. ; Giprtii. Fruct., 59. ; Tourii. Inst., 368. ; Juss. Gen., 160. ; H. B 



et Kuntli Nov. Gen. Amer., 3. p. 279. ; Adans. Fam. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 834. 

 Synonymes. vJndrachne Clus. ; ^'rbutus sp. Lin. Gen., No. 750., Schrad. Gen., 750. ; Arbousier 



Fr. ; Sandbeere, Ger. ; Abbatro, Ital. 

 Derivation. From ar boi's, austere bush, Celtic ; in allusion to the austere quality of the fruit. 



Description, Sfc. 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 Qd. to 2s. 6d. each. At BoUwyller and New York they are green- 

 house plants. 



m t I. A. C/^NEDo L. 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. 2.54. ; Fl. Hib , p. 182. 

 Synonymes. L'Arbou.sier commun, Arbousier des Pyr<5nees. or Fraisier en Arbre, Fr. ; Erdbeereartige 



Sandbeere, Ger. ; KomaSi, Mod. Greek. 

 Engravings. Mill. Ic. t. 48 ; Barrel. Ic, t. 674; Eng. Bot., t. 2377 ; and out fig. 919. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Arboreous. Branchlets clothed with glandular hairs. Leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, serrulated. Flowers nodding. Peduncles 

 smooth. (Bon's Mill., iii. p. 834.) 



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A native of the south of Europe, as 

 of Spain, Italy, and Greece ; and of 

 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 

 London nurseries. 



m ± A. U. 1 dlbus Ait. Hort. 

 i. p., 7L — Flowei's 

 This is the common 



Kew., 



white. 



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. 



t 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 i^lt'nus Ait. Hort. Kew., ii. p. 71. — Flowers semidouble. 



A. U. 4 schizopetalus. — 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.) 



