XLIII. RICA CE>^ : ARBUTUS. 



578 



Gartl. 2d ser. t. 276. flowers white. Discovered in Cuiine- 

 niara, in 1820, growing along with the common vai'icty. 



Genus XIV. 



v^'RBUTUS Camer. 



The Arbutus, or Strawberry Tree. Lin. Syst. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



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



Syiiunyines. .^ndrachne Clus. ; .J'rbutus sp. Liri. Gen. No. 750. ; Arbousier, Fr. ; Sandbeere, 



[ Gcr. ; Abbatro, Ital. 



VOciivtilion. 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-clett, reflexed. Stamens 10, enclosed. Anthers compressed on the side.s. 

 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. Floiuers 



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

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

 and America. 



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

 'eadily propagated, the common kinds by layers, cuttings, or seeds, and the 

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

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



I it 1 1. J. CTnedo L. The Unedo Arbutus, or Straivbcrry Tree. 



[dmlification. Lin. Sp., ."ieG. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 134. 



'.ynonymes. L' Arbousier commun, Arbousier des Pyrenees, or Frai^ier en Arbre, Fr. ; Erdbeere- 



1 artige Sandbeere, Ger. ; Komaa, Mod. Greet:. 



f^ngravings. Eng. Boi., t. 2377. ; and our Jig. 1077. 

 'pec. Char., Sfc. Arboreous. Branch- 

 1 lets clothed with glandular hairs. 



j Leaves oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, 

 serrulated. Flowers nodding. Pe- 

 duncles smooth. (Don's Mill.) An 

 evergreen shrub or low tree. South 



I of Europe, Palestine, and Ireland, 



i in the county of Kerry, near the 

 Lake of Killarney, on barren lime- 



I 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. 



metics. 



t A. U. 1 dlbus Ait. Hort. 

 Kew. ii. p. 71. Flowers 

 white. This is the com- 

 mon sort, raised in nurseries by seed. 

 of a greenish or yellowish white, and 

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



S A. U. 2 ruber Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. p. 71. Flowers reddish. This 

 is the handsomest variety in cultivation. It is commonly propagated 

 by layers, or by grafting on the species, and sometimes by cuttings. 



A. U. 3 plcnus Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. p. 71. Flowers semidouble. 



/I'rl'Utu* t/Vedo. 



The flowers are sometimes 

 sometimes reddish. The 



