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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



America, it has been used for tanning leather, and dyeing it an ash-grey 

 colour. On rockwork in gai'dens it is very ornamental. 



!U 2. A. ALPi^NA Spreng The Alpine Bearberry. 



Identification. Spreng. Syst., 2. p. 287. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 836. 

 Synonyme. A'x'q\A\x% alplna Lin. Sp. 5GG. 

 Engravings. Engl. Bot., t. 2030. ; and our^^. 1088. 



Spec. Char., <^c. Stem procumbent. Leaves obovate, acute, wrinkled, ser- 

 rated, deciduous. Racemes terminal. Pedicels rather hairy. The flowers 

 grow in reflexed racemes, and are pure white. (Don's Mill.) A trailins 

 evergreen shrub. Denmark, Switzerland, Siberia, Lap- 

 land, &c. ; the Highlands of Scotland, on dry moors ; 

 also in Canada. &c. Height 1 ft. ; shoots 2 ft. to 4 ft. 

 Flowers in reflexed racemes, pure white ; April to June. 

 Fruit black, of the size of a sloe, witli a taste somewhat 

 resembling that of black currants, but more mawkish : 

 ripe in September. 



In British gardens, it has long been a favourite peat- 

 earth trailing shrub, requiring an airy situation. It does 

 not thrive in the immediate vicinity of London, nor where 

 it is much sheltered ; but, either on rockwork, in beds of dry peat, or in 

 moist peat, it grows with great luxuriance, and occasionally ripens fruit. 



1088. A. alpina. 



A. pungens H. B. et Kunth {Don's Mill., lii. p. 836.) is a native of Mexico, 

 in elevated places, near Moran and Villaipando, where it forms a branchy 

 shrub, about a foot in height. Introduced in 1839. Hort. Soc. Garden. 



Genus XVL 



PERNE'TTY^ Gaud. 



The Pernettya. 



Monoffvnia. 



Lin. Syst. Decandria. 



Identification. Gaud, in Frey. Voy., p. 454. t. 67. ; Don's Mill., 3 p. 836 



Derivation. Named after Do7n Perrictty. tlie author of the Account of a Voyage to the Falkland 

 Isles ; a work remarkable for its interest, as well as for its candour and exactness. The original 

 species of this genus was mentioned by this traveller under the name of " Bruyere & feuilles 

 pointues." [Lindl. in Bot. Reg.) 



Gen. Char. Calyx inferior, 5-parted. Corolla globose ; limb 3-parted, re-f 

 volute. Stamens 10, almost hypogynous, enclosed ; filaments thickened at 

 the base. Cells of anthers bifid, and dehiscing at the apex. Ovarium fref,{ 

 depressed, globose, 5-celled ; cells many-seeded ; hypogynous scales or, 

 glands 10, 3-lobed, forming a ring round the ovarium, and alternating widi; 

 the stamens. Style terminal, short. Stigma convex, obsoletely S-lobed.i 

 Berry propped by the rather fleshy calyx. Seeds minute, oblong-ovate.j 

 {Don's Mai.) ' _ I 



Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate, evergreen ; very small, approximate] 

 Flowers axillary, solitary, drooping, with bracteate peduncles. Shriibs; 

 evergreen, small, spreailing, much branched ; natives of Europe and America 



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1. P. .MUCRONA^TA Gaud. 



Identification. Gaud, in Ann. Sc, .5. p. 102. ; Don's Mill 

 Synonyme. //'rbutus mucronata I.in.fil. Suppl. p. 239. 

 i.f^ravings. 



The mucronate-/efli'erf Pernettya. 



2. p. 836. 

 Bot. Reg., t. 1675. ; Bot. Mag., t. 3093. ; and our,/Jg-. 1089. ! 



Spec. Char., Sf-c. Leaves ovate, cuspidate, denticulately serrulate, stiff, shining 

 on both surfaces. Pedicels axillary, bracteate, about equal in length to thi 

 leaves. Flowers white, drooping. '{Don's Mill.) A neat little evergreej 

 shrub. Terra del Fuego, Cape Horn, and the Straits of Magellan. Heigl: 

 k ft. to 3 ft. Introduced in 1828. Flowers white ; Mav. 



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