280 ADDITIONAL SPECIES. 



or early in the morning, while the dew is on them : the 

 lateral flowers have mostly their parts of fructification in 

 fours, the terminal one in fives." HOOKER. 



ARBUTUS. 



1 . A. Uva-ursi, shrub ; stems procumbent ; leaves obovate, en- 

 tire, smooth, evergreen ; flowers rose-coloured, in small terminal 

 clusters ; berry globose, scarlet Red Sear-berry. 



I fab. Dry heathy places. On the west side of Dirrington 

 Law, plentiful, Mr Thomas Brown. June. 



The berries of this shrub, for the knowledge of which as a 

 native of Berwickshire I am indebted to Mr BROWN, are 

 known to the common people in the west of the county by 

 the name of Rapperdandies, and are eaten by them. They 

 are dry, mealy, and austere ; left untouched by birds, ac- 

 cording to SMITH, but, according to LIGHTFOOT and 

 HOOKER, yielding excellent food for the moor-fowl. The 

 leaves are astringent, and have been used by the tanner ; 

 and they afford to the physician a medicine of some re- 

 pute and efficacy in calculous and phthisical disorders. 



PY110LA, (p. 92.) 



3. P. minor, stamens regularly inflexed; style the same length, 

 straight ; stigma 5-lobed, pointless, without a ring ; cluster of 

 many drooping flowers. Lesser Winter-green. 



flab. Wood at Orange-lane ; and plantation to the north 

 of Loch Lithtillum, abundant, Mr R. D. Thomson. 

 Langton wood, Mr Thomas Brown. Blackadder plan- 

 tations, abundant. Wooded banks of the Dye above 

 Longformacus, where a single specimen was gathered 

 by my friend Mr Weddell. July. 7/ 



Root creeping ; leaves on triangular grooved stalks, round- 

 ish-ovate, crenate ; flower-stalks triangular or pentangu- 

 lar, straight, reddish ; flowers clustered, orbicular, white, 

 tinged with pink, pendant on stalks shorter than the lan- 

 ceolate bractese ; filaments equal, inclined round the cap- 

 sule, white, with orange-yellow pores ; style not longer 

 than the anthers, straight, with a large dilated 5-lobed 

 apex. The seeds of the Pyrolce lie imbedded in a thick 

 cottony material, consisting of short erect fibres, arranged 



