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In peat-bogs in the Lowlands not unfrequent, and 

 abundantly upon Solivay-Mofs^ on the borders 

 of the two kingdoms, "b . V. & IX. 

 This elegant little fhrub is about fix or eight inches 

 high» erecl and branched : the leaves are feli-Ie, 

 elliptical, rigid, their edges turn'd back, green 

 on the upper fide, glaucous underneath ; the 

 peduncles are of a bright red color, and arife 

 from the fummits of the branches, each fup- 

 porting one fingle oval flower, of a pink color, 

 with a red calyx, 



ARBUTUS. Gen. pi. 552. 



Cat. 5-partitus. Ccr. ovata, ore bafi pellucida. 

 Bacca 5-locularis. 



ARBUTUS caulibus procumbentibus, follis ru- 

 gofis ferratis. Sp.pl s^6. {Oed. Dan. t. 73. Cyer, 

 Em. 14 1 6. /. 4. Csr f.g. nojlra.) 



Alpine Arbutus. Anglis. 



Upon many of the highland niountains in dry bar- 

 ren places, particularly on thole to the South of 

 Little Loch Broom., in Rofs-jhire., and thoie in the 

 way between Loch-Broom and Loch-May i abun- 

 dantly, &c. I found it likewife upon a moun- 

 tain call'd Ben-na-grion, in Strath., in the iile of 

 Skye^ two miles above M'Kennon's Calile. }? . V. 



The branches of this llirub trail fiat upon the 

 ground, two or three feet round the root, having 

 a brown deciduous bark : the leaves grow al- 

 ternate, of a long oval form, gradually dimi- 

 niflfing towards the bafe into a footftalk j they 



