1124 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. TART III. 



unpleasant. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 836.) A trailing shrub, native of Den- 

 mark, Switzerland, Dauphine, Savoj', Siberia, &c. Found wild in many 

 places of the Highlands of Scotland, in dry barren moors. Nothing is more 

 common, says Linnaeus, in all the Lapland alps, in Dalecarlia, from their 

 tops to their bases, round the White Sea, especially in very sandy places. 

 It is also found in Canada, and the more northern parts of America, 

 in the Aleutian Isles, &c. In British gardens, it has long been a favourite 

 peat-earth trailing shrub, requiring an airy situation. It does not thrive in 

 the immediate vicinity of London, nor where it is much sheltered ; but, 

 either on rockwork, in beds of ch-y peat, or in moist peat, it grows with great 

 luxuriance, and occasionally ripens fruit. 



App. 1. Half-hardy Species of Krctostaphylos not yet introduced. 



A. YoliftAia II. B. ct Kunth [Don's Mill , 3. p. Sofi., Andromeda /pdifftlia Hum!)., is a native of tlie 

 temperate parts of Mexico, growing to the height of from 4 It. to 6 ft. 



A. glaucesceiis H. li. et Kunth (Don's Mill., o. p. &>6.) is a native of Mexico, with lanceolate- 

 oblong leaves, and scarlet corollas. 



A. piiiigrns H. 15. et Kunth (Djii's Mill., 3. p. Sofi.) is a native of Mexico, in clevateil places, near 

 Moran and Villalpando, where it forms a branchy shrub, about a foot in height. 



A. IIo6kcr\ (i. Don {Mill Did., .3. p. 8.J»5.), /I'rbutus piingens Hook., is a native of Chili, where it 

 forms a prostrate shrub, with the habit and leaves of A. U^•a•llr6i. 



Genu-s XV. 



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PERNE'TTYy^ Gau.l. Tiik Pkhnettva. lAn. S,,sl. Decandria 

 Monogynia. 



Identification, tiaiid. in Frcz. Voy., p. i'A t. (T7. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 8.5fi. 



Derivation. Named after Dom Pcrmtty, the author of the Account of a I'ot/agc to the Falkland 

 Isles ; a work remark.ible for its interest, as well as for its candour and exactness. The original 

 species of this genus was mentioned by this traveller under the name of "BruyiSre & feuilles 

 pointucs." {Lindl. in Bot. licf;. t 1675.) 



Description. Evergreen undershrubs. Natives of North and South America. 

 «. 1. P. MUCRONA^TA Gaud. The mucronate-Ztfawrf Pernettya. 



Identification. Gaud, in Ann. Sc.,5. p. lOi ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 836. 



Synoni/me. /I'rbutus mucronata A»n. ^/. SumU., p. 2J9., Forst. in Com. Gwt., ' 024 



a p. 31., 'GinAam in liot. Mag., t.Ml6., Lam. III., t 336. f. a,, Lodd. Hot. «*» 



Cab., t. 1848., Fenny Cj/c, vol. 4. p. 255. 

 Engravings. Lindl Bot. IJeg., t 1675. ; Bot Mag., t3093. ; Lam. 111., t336. f 



a. ; Lotid. Bot. Cab., t. 1848. ; and out fig. 924. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves ovate, cuspidate, denticulately serru- 

 late, stiff, shining on both surfaces. Pedicels axillary, brac- 

 teate, about equal in length to the leaves. Flowers white, -., 

 drooping. (Don's Mi//.,ni. p. 836.) A shrub growing to the' v\ 

 height of from 2 ft. to 3 ft.,- a native of Terra del Fucgo, \ ^ji 

 Cape Horn, and tiie Straits of Magellan. It was intro- 

 duced in 1 828, and flowers in May. In the garden of \V, 

 Harrison, Esq., of Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire it has, within 

 3 years, formed an evergreen bush, 3^ ft. in diameter, and 

 2i ft. high, in a bed of peat soil. It is a hardy evergreen 

 shrub, of considerable beauty, on account of the neat appear- 

 ance and dark colour of its foliage. (Bot. Reg., May, 1834.) 



i~ 2. P. PILOTS A G. Don. The pilose, or hairy, Pernettya. 



Identification. Gard. Mag., 10. p. 28a ; Don's Mill., .3. p. 837. ; Bot Mag t 3177 

 Synonytne. yf'rbutus pilbsa Graham. Dr. Lindley says. " As far as habit and the str\icture of the 

 flowers are concerned, j4'rbutus pilbsa Graham would be referable to Pern<'ttya • but we incline 

 to believe that plant an Andromeda" {Bot. Reg. 1. 1675.) ; the doctor speaking oi the genus An. 

 drome<in as it stoo<l prei-iously to Professor Don's division of it 

 Engraving. Bot Mag., t 3177. 



