2i6 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



are wrinkled on the upper fide thro' the depref- 

 fion of the veins, and reticulated underneath by 

 their prominency -, their edges are flightly fer- 

 rated, and their footftalks have a few ftraggling 

 hairs: the flowers grow in reflexed clufters at 

 the fummits of the branches, each {landing {in- 

 gle upon {liort peduncles : they are of an oval- 

 conical form, and white color, the rim divided 

 into five {hort, obtufe, reflexed fegments : the 

 \ berries are globular, fmooth, with a deprefs'd 



umbilicus, black when ripe, and of the fize of 

 a floe, having five cells containing five feeds, 

 their tafle fomething refernbling that of black 

 currants. 



'iva urfi 2i ARBUTUS caulibus procumbentibus, foliis inte- 

 gerrimis. Sp. pi. ^66. {Oed. Dan. t. 33. Ger. Em. 

 1416./. 5. Flor, Lapp. t. 6. /. 3. ^ fig noji.) 



Bear-berries, Bear-whortle-berries. AngUs. 



Braoileaga-nan-con. Gaulis. 



Upon dry, heathy, mountainous and rocky places, 

 throughout the Highlands and Wefiern Ifies : it is 

 fo common a plant that it is almofl needlefs to 

 fpecify places. It abounds however at Dunkeld 

 and Blair, the feats of the Duke of Jlhol, in 

 Perlhfijire. 



To remove miflakes I mufl: here obferve, that this 

 is the plant mentioned in Rays Synopfis, p. 458, , 

 as found by Mr. Lbzvyd, growing plentifully for 

 fome miles together in that end of the ifland of 

 Mull next to T'Columb-kill ; and not the AR- 

 BUTUS 



