BIRD'S-NEST TRIBE 18S 



6. Arbutus (Strawberry-tree) 

 I. A. unedo (Strawberry-tree). Leaves elliptical, tapering, ser- 

 rated, smooth ; flowers in drooping panicles ; fruit rough. A beau- 

 tiful evergreen tree, with a rough, 

 reddish bark, large deep green leaves, 

 and numerous terminal clusters of 

 greenish white flowers. The berries, 

 which ripen in the following autumn, 

 are nearly globular, orange-scarlet, 

 and rough, with minute, hard grains. 

 They are eatable, but so much less 

 attractive to the taste than to the 

 eye as to have originated the name 

 " Unedo " (" One-I-eat "), as if no 

 one would choose to try a second. Arbutus Unedo 



The flowers are in full perfection at (Strawberry-Tree) 



the time when the fruit, formed 



in the preceding year, is ripening ; and then, of course, the tree 

 presents its most beautiful appearance. About the lakes of Kil- 

 larney in a wild state, and very common in English gardens. 

 Fl. September, October. Tree. 



7. Arctostaphylos (Bear-berry) 



1. A. uva-ursi (Red Bear-berry). Stems prostrate ; leaves in- 

 versely egg-shaped, entire, evergreen ; flowers in terminal clusters. 

 A small shrub, distinguished by its long trailing stems, blunt leaves, 

 which turn red in autumn, rose-coloured flowers, and small red 

 berries, which are a favourite food of moor-fowl. The leaves are 

 used in medicine as an astringent. Mountainous heaths in the 

 north ; abundant. Fl. May. Shrub. 



2. A. Alpina (Black Bear-berry). Resembles the last in its mode 

 of growth, but the leaves are wrinkled and serrated, and not ever- 

 green ; the flowers are white, with a purplish tinge ; the berries 

 black. It is most common on mountains in the north of Scotland. 



Natural Order XLVIII 

 MONOTROPACE^. The Bird's-nest Tribe 



Sepals 4-5, not falling off ; corolla regular, deeply divided into as 

 many lobes or petals as there are sepals ; stamens twice as many as 

 the lobes of the corolla ; anthers opening by pores ; ovary 4 to 5-celled, 

 sometimes imperfectly so ; style 1, often bent ; stigma generally 

 lobed ; fruit a dry capsule ; seeds covered with a loose skin. A 

 small, unimportant Order, containing but two British genera 

 Pyrola. a family of plants with somewhat shrubby, unbrnnched 



