26 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Tribe I.— ARBUTE.E. 



Corolla deciduous. Fruit a berry, superior. 



GENUS II.— A RCTOSTAPHYLOS. Adam. 



Calyx free from the ovary, 5- or 4-partite. Corolla hypogy- 

 nous, deciduous, monopetalous, globose- or ovate - urceolate or 

 urceolate-bellsbaped, with as many teeth as there are divisions 

 in the calyx. Stamens 10 or 8 ; filaments short ; anthers bent 

 down, appearing as if affixed by the apex, each one with 2 pores 

 and 2 awns close to the point of attachment. Fruit a berry-like 

 drupe, containing 5 bony 1-seeded pyrenes or stones ; surface of 

 the drupe smooth. 



Small shrubs or undershrubs, with alternate obovate entire or 

 serrate evergreen or deciduous leaves, and pink or white flowers 

 in short terminal racemes. Inflorescence-buds scaly. 



The derivation of the name of this genus of plants is from opkTos (arktos), a 

 bear, and arcHpvXri (staphulc), a grape. 



SPECIES I.— ARCTOSTAPHYLOS ALPINA. Sprmg. 



Plate DCCCLXXX. 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLXVII. Fig. 4. 

 Arbutus alpiua; Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 2030. 



Stems procumbent. Shoots of the year glabrous. Leaves 

 rather thin, deciduous, wedgeshaped-obovate or -oblanceolate, nar- 

 rowed into indistinct winged petioles, sub-acute, doubly crenate- 

 serrate in the apical half, glabrous, sparingly ciliated with bristly 

 hairs, shining-green, with the veins impressed above, slightly 

 glaucous and with the veins prominent and forming coarse network 

 beneath. Flower drooping, 2 or 3 together at the summit of the 

 branches of the preceding year, appearing Avith the young leaves 

 or before them. Pedicels short, longer than the bracts. Bracts 

 scarious, oval, boat-shaped, and ciliated. Corolla broadly ovate- 

 urceolate, with 4 or 5 short reflexed obtuse teeth, which are hairy 

 within. Appendages of the anthers very short. Berry smooth, 

 bluish-black, slightly-shining. 



On heaths and barren places on mountains. Rare. Near the 

 summit of the mountain to the South of Bradoonie, Clova, For- 

 farshire ; on Ben Nevis, near the Lake ; in the Isle of Skye ; in 



