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ARBUTUS* UVA URSf, 



Bearberry. 



Clans X. Decandria. — Order I. Monogynia. 

 Nat- Orel. EricejE. 

 Gen. Char. Calyx deeply five-cleft. Corolla ovate, with 

 a five-cleft orifice ; pellucid at the base. Berry superior, 

 five-celled, many-seeded. 

 Spec. Char. Stems procumbent. Leaves obovate, entire, 

 evergreen. Racemes tenninal. - 



SYNONYMES. 

 Greek afxrav tTa^uXn. Galen. 



r Vaccinia ursi, sive Uva ursi apud Clusium. Get: Em. 1416. 

 Latin J Vaccinia rubra foliis myrtinis crispis. Raii Syn. 457- 



I Vitis idcea foliis carnosis et veluti punctatis. Bauh. Pin. 470. 



^ Arbutus Uva Ursi. Lin. Sp. PI. 566. 

 French. . . . Busserole ; Raisin d'ours ; Arbousier trainant. 

 Italian .... Uva d'orso ; Uva orsina. 

 Spanish. . . . Gayuba ; Uva de oso- 

 Portuguese Uva de urso. 

 German . . . Beerentraube ; Steinbeere. 

 Dutch..., Beeren-druif ; Wolfs-bezien-boomtie. 

 Sicedinh . . . IMiolon ; IMicelboer. 

 Danish.... Mioeluebcer. 



Description. — The root is perennial, long, branched, and fi- 

 brous. The stems are numerous, long, procumbent, spreading, 

 branched, smooth^ and covered with deciduous bark : the young 

 shoots are tinged with red, and slightly pubescent. The leaves 

 are inversely ovate, obtuse, entire, stiff, rigid, glabrous, ever- 

 green, revolute at the margin, marked with reticulated veins be- 

 neath, and attached to the stem by short petioles. The flowers 

 terminate the branches in small crowded racemes, with several 

 bractese at the base. The calyx is very small, five-cleft, obtuse, 

 persistent. The corolla is ovate, pellucid at the base, contract- 

 ed towards the moutli, and divided into five reflexed rose- 

 * Arctostaphylos of some writers. 



