400 ERICACEAE. 



shrub, with large, purple, sometimes white flowers, which 

 grow in terminal, leafy, 1 -sided clusters. FL June, 

 July. Shrub. 



4. AZALEA. 



1. A. procumbens (Trailing Azalea). A low trailing 

 shrub, of a very different habit from most of the garden 

 plants cultivated under the name of Azaleas. The stems 

 are prostrate and tangled ; .the leaves small, smooth, and 

 rigid, with the margins remarkably rolled back ; the 

 flowers are flesh-coloured, and grow in short terminal 

 clusters, or tufts. Highland mountains. FL May, June. 

 Shrub. 



5. ANDROMEDA. 



1 . A. polifolia (Marsh Andr6meda). The only British 

 species, growing in peat bogs in the north. A small, 

 leafy, evergreen shrub, with slender stems, narrow, 

 pointed leaves, and terminal tufts of flesh-coloured, droop- 

 ing flowers. FL June August. Shrub. 



6. ARBUTUS (Strawberry-tree). 



1. A. IJnedo (Strawberry-tree). Leaves elliptical, 

 tapering, serrated, smooth ; flowers in drooping panicles ; 

 fruit rough. Abundant about the lakes of Killarney, 

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

 A beautiful evergreen tree, with a rough, reddish bark, 

 large deep-green leaves, and numerous terminal clusters 

 of greenish- white floivers. The berries, which ripen in 

 the following autumn, are nearly globular, 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. The flowers 

 are in full perfection at the time when the fruit, formed 

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

 the tree presents its most beautiful appearance. FL 

 September, October. Tree. 



