PLATE V. 



1. ARBUTUS UNEDO. 



STRAWBERRY TREE. 



THIS genus contains plants of the evergreen, shrubby and orna- 

 mental kind. 



It belongs to the class and order Decandria Monogynia, and ranks 

 in the natural order of Bicornes. 



The characters are: that the calyx is a five-parted, obtuse, very 

 small permanent perianthium: the corolla is monopetalous, ovate, 

 and flattish at the base, diaphanous, with a quinquefid mouth: the 

 divisions obtuse, revolute and small: the stamina consist often subu- 

 late swelling filaments, very slender at the base, affixed to the edge 

 of the base of corolla, and half the length of it: the antherse slightly 

 bifid and nodding: the pistillum is a subglobular germ, on a recep- 

 tacle marked with ten dots: the style cylindric, the length of the 

 corolla: the stigma thickish and obtuse: the pericarpium a roundish 

 five-celled berry : the seeds small and bony. 



The species of most importance are: 1. A. Unedo, Common Ar- 

 butus, or Strawberry Tree ; 2. A. Andrachne, Oriental Strawberry 

 Tree ; 3. A. Uva Ursi, Trailing Arbutus, or Bearberry. 



The first species, Common Arbutus, or Strawberry Tree, rises to 

 the height of twenty or thirty feet in its native situation, but rarely 

 with an upright stem. But with us it is of much humbler growth. 

 It usually puts out branches very near the ground. The leaves keep 

 on all the winter, and are thrust off in the spring by new ones, so 

 that it is always clothed with leaves. The berries have many seeds 

 in them, and are roughened with the tubercles of the seeds. 



There are several varieties; as with large oval fruit, with round 



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