Akbutus.] ERICACEAE. 251 



A. Une'do, L. ; leaves obovate- or oblong-lanceolate acute doubly- 

 serrate, panicles drooping many-fld. Strawberry-tree. 

 Woods at Killarney, Muckross, and Bantry ; fl. Sept.-Oct. — A small rounded 



much-branched evergreen tree, 8-10 ft. ; bark rough ; branchlets and petioles 



hairy and glandular. Leaves 2-3 in., petioled. Panicles glabrous, lax ; 



pedicels short ; bracts deciduous. Sepals short, rounded. Corolla § in., 



creamy. Berry § in. diam., orange -scarlet, subglobose, muricate. — Distrib. 



S. France, Spain, Mediterranean region. — Berries eatable when perfectly 



ripe ; made into a wine in Corsica. 



3. ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, Adanson. Bearberry. 



Characters of Arbutus, but cells of ovary 5-10, 1-ovuled ; disk of 3 

 fleshy scales ; and fruit a drupe with 5-10 stones.— Distrib. of Arbutus, 

 but more abundant in America; species about 15. — Etym. &pktos and 

 aracpvAr], the fruit being a food of bears. 



1. A. alpi'na, Spreng. ; branches depressed, leaves deciduous obovate or 

 spathulate crenate-serrate above the middle, nerves netted, drupe black. 

 Dry barren Scotch Mts., rare, from Forfar, Perth, and Inverness to Shetland ; 



ascends to 2,700 ft. ; fl. May-July. — Forms woody patches ; branches stout, 

 leafy, interlaced ; bark scaly. Leaves ^-1^ in. ; petiole short, wrinkled above, 

 ciliate. Flowers 2-3, appearing with the young leaves, shortly pedicelled ; 

 bracts cili ate. Calyx minute. Corolla £ in. broad, white; lobes 4-5, pubescent 

 within. Filaments subulate ; anthers brown, awns very short. Berry J in. 

 diam. — Distrib. Scandinavia (Arctic), Mts. of Mid. Europe, cold and 

 Arctic Asia and America. 



2. A. Uva-ur'si, Spreng. ; branches trailing, leaves evergreen obovate 

 or spathulate quite entire very coriaceous, drupe red. 



Heathy rocky places from York and Derby to Shetland ; ascends to near 3,000 

 ft. in the Highlands; N.W. Ireland; fl. May-June. — Forms depressed trail- 

 ing masses ; branches 1-2 ft., stout, woody, young puberulous ; bark dark, 

 scaling. Leaves ^-1 in., petiole and margin finely woolly, deep green, nerves 

 reticulate on both surfaces. Racemes crowded, very short, few-fid. ; scales 

 and bracteoles persistent, ciliate ; pedicels very short. Sepals short, broad. 

 Corolla § in., pink, urceolate ; teeth 4-5, hairy within. Anthers with long 

 awns. Berry J iu. diam. — Distrib. Arctic and Alpine Europe (excl. Greece, 

 Turkey), Siberia, N". America. 



4. ANDROMEDA, L. 



A small shrub ; buds clothed with scales. Leaves alternate, evergreen. 

 Flowers in sub terminal umbels, white or pink. Sepals 4. Corolla hypo- 

 gynous, globose ; limb 5-fid, reflexed. Stamens 10, hypogynous, included, 

 filaments bearded ; anthers obtuse, dorsally 2-awned. Ovary 5-celled ; 

 style simple, stigma obtuse or dilated ; placentas many-ovuled, pendulous. 

 Capsule subglobose, loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds attached to a central 

 column, small, testa hard, smooth, raphe thickened. — Distrib. Arctic 

 and Alpine Europe (excl. ' Greece, Turkey), Siberia, N„ America. — Etym. 

 Mythical. 



