XLIII. ERICACEAE: ARBUTUS. 



573 



Gard. 2d ser. t. 276. Flowers white. Discovered in Cunne- 

 mara, in 1820, growing along with the common variety. 



"GENUS XIV. 



,4'RBUTUS Corner. THE ARBUTUS, or STRAWBERRY TREE. Lin. Syst. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Camer. Epit., p. 163. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 834. 



Synonymes. yindrachne G'ws. ; ^f'rbutus sp. Lin. Gen. No. 750. ; Arbousicr, Fr. ; Sandbeere, 



Gt-r. ; Abbatro, Ital. 

 Derivation. From ar bois, austere bush, Celtic ; in allusion to the austere quality of the fruit. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla globose, or ovately campanulate ; limb 

 5-cleft, reflexed. Stamens 10, enclosed. Anthers compressed on the sides, 

 dehiscing by two pores at the apex, fixed by the back beneath the apex, 

 where they are furnished with two reflexed awns. Ovarium seated on a 

 hypogynous disk, or half-immersed in it, 5-celled ; cells many-seeded. Style 

 1. Stigma obtuse. Berry nearly globose, granular. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; serrated or entire. Flowers 

 in racemes, terminal, panicled, pedicellate, bracteate, with white or flesh 

 coloured corollas. Trees and shrubs, evergreen ; natives of Europe, Asia, 

 and America. 



They are of easy culture, in sandy loam, or loam and peat ; and they are 

 readily propagated, the common kinds by layers, cuttings, or seeds, and the 

 rarer and tenderer sorts by grafting on those that are more common and hardy. 

 All the species have the outer bark more or less tinged with red, and scaly. 



m % I. A. CTNEDO L. The Unedo Arbutus, or Strawberry Tree. 



Identification. Lin. Sp., 566. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 134. 



Synonymes. L'Arbousier commun, Arbousier des Pyrenees, or Fraisier en Arbre, Fr. ; Erdbeere- 



artige Sandbeere, Ger. ; Koinaa, Mod. Greek. 

 Engravings. Eng. Dot., t. 2377. ; and our Jig. 1077. 



Spec. Char., Sf-c. Arboreous. Branch- 

 lets clothed with glandular hairs. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, 

 serrulated. Flowers nodding. Pe- 

 duncles smooth. (Don's MM.) An 

 evergreen shrub or low tree. South 

 of -Europe, Palestine, and Ireland, 

 in the county of Kerry, near the 

 Lake of Killarney, on barren lime- 

 stone rocks, where the country 

 people eat the fruit. Height 10 ft. 

 to 20 ft. Flowers white ; Septem- 

 ber and December. Fruit large, 

 scarlet ; ripe in December. 



Varieties. 



f A. U. 1 albus Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. ii. p. 71. Flowers 

 white. This is the com- 

 mon sort, raised in nurseries by seed. The flowers are sometimes 

 of a greenish or yellowish white, and sometimes reddish. The 

 colour of the fruit, also, varies in a similar manner. 



* i A. U. 2 ruber Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. p. 7 1 . .Flowers reddish. This 

 is the handsomest variety in cultivation. It is commonly propagated 

 by layers, or by grafting on the species, and sometimes by cnttin.es. 



A. U. Splcnus Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. p. 71. Flowers semidouble. 



1077. jl'rbutus UViedo, 



