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ARBOHETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



unpleasant. (Don's Mill., in. p. 836.) A trailing shrub, native of Den- 

 mark, Switzerland, Dauphine, Savoy, Siberia, &c. Found wild in many 

 places of the Highlands of Scotland, in dry barren moors. Nothing is more 

 common, says Linnaeus, in all the Lapland alps, in Dalecarlia, from their 

 tops to their bases, round the White Sea, especially in very sandy places. 

 It is also found in Canada, and the more northern parts of America, 

 in the Aleutian Isles, &c. 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. 



App. i. Half-hardy Species of Arctostaphylos not yet introduced. 



A. \mlifolia H. B. et Kunth (Don's Mill., 3. p. Soft, Andromeda /cdifolia Plumb., is a native of the 

 temperate parts of Mexico, growing to the height of from 4ft. to 6ft. 



A. glaucesccns H. B. et Kunth (Don's Mill., 3. p. 836.) is a native of Mexico, with lanceolate- 

 oblong leaves, and scarlet corollas. 



A. pungcns H. B. et Kunth (Dan's Mill., 3. p. 836.) is a native of Mexico, in elevated places, near 

 Moran and Villalpando, where it forms a branchy shrub, about a foot in height. 



A. Hodkeri G. Don (Mill. Diet., 3. p. 836.), yfrbutus pungens Hook., is a native of Chili, where it 

 forms a prostrate shrub, with the habit and leaves of A. UVa-ursi. 



GENUS XV. 



PERNETTY.4 Gaud. THE PERNETTYA. Lin. Syst. Dccandria 

 Monogynia. 



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



Derivation. Named after Dom Pernctty, the author of the Account of a Voyage to ftie 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 & feuilh 1 !- 

 pointues." (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1675.) 



Description. Evergreen undershrubs. Natives of North and South America. 



1. P. IUCRONA N TA Gaud. The mucron&te-leaved Pernettya. 



924 



Identification. Gaud, in Ann. Sc., 5. p. 102. ; Don's Mill., 2. p. 836. 

 Xi/nonyme. ^'rbutus mucronata Lin. jil. Suppl., p. 239., Forst. in Com. Gael., 



9. p. 31., Graham in Sot. Mag., t. 3093., Lam. 111., t. 336. f. a., Lodd. Bot. 



Cab., t. 1848., Penny Cyc. t vol. 4. p. 255. 

 Engravings. Lindl. Bot. Keg., 1. 1675. ; Bot. Mag., t.3093. ; Lam. 111., 1 336. f. 



a. ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 1848. ; and our fig. 924. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves ovate, cuspidate, denticulately serru- 

 late, stiff, shining on both surfaces. Pedicels axillary, brac- 

 teate, about equal in length to the leaves. Flowers white, 

 drooping. (Don's Mill.,m. p. 836.) A shrub growing to the 

 height of from 2 ft. to 3 ft. ; a native of Terra del Ftiego, 

 Cape Horn, and the Straits of Magellan. It was intro- 

 duced in 1828, and flowers in May. In the garden of W. 

 Harrison, Esq., of Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire it has, within 

 3 years, formed an evergreen bush, 3| ft. in diameter, and 

 2^ ft. high, in a bed of peat soil. It is a hardy evergreen 

 shrub, of considerable beauty, on account of the neat appear- 

 ance and dark colour of its foliage. (Bot. Reg., May, 1834.) 



*~ 2. P. PILOTS A G. Don. The pilose, or hairy, Pernettya. 



Identification, Gard. Mag., 10. p. 286. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 837. ; Bot. Mag.,t 3177. 



Synonyme. ^4'rbutns pilbsa Graham. Dr. Lindley says, " As far as habit and the structure of the 

 flowers are concerned, y/'rbutus pilbsa Graham would be referable to Perm'ttya but we incline 

 to believe that plant an Andromeda" (Bot. Reg. 1. 1675.) ; the doctor speaking of the genus An- 

 dromedrt as it stood previously to Professor Don's division of it. 



Engraving. Bot. Mag., t. 3177. 



