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solitary under each partial stalk, recurved. Fl. very elegant, of 

 a greenish, semitransparent white, with a shade of red, destitute 

 of scent. Berry crimson, the size of a cherry, very like a straw- 

 berry, being covered with hard tubercles, but the seeds are in- 

 ternal. This fruit is insipid, and scarcely eatable in England ; 

 but in the Levant it is said to be much larger, and more agree- 

 able as well as wholesome. It is 12 months in arriving at per- 

 fection. 



2. A. alpina. Black Bear-berry. 



Stems procumbent. Leaves ruggetl, serrated. Clusters 

 terminal. 



A. alpina. Linn. Sp. PI. 566. H^illd. v. 2. 618. Fl. Br. 442 En<^l 

 Bot. V. 29. t. 2030. Lightf. 215. t. II. f. a, h. Hook. Scot. 126. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 73. 



A. n. 1019. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 436. 



Vitis Idaea. Clus. Hist. v.].6l.f. 



V. Idaea fructu nigro. Bauh. Hist. v.\.p.\.5\9.f. 



Vaccinia pannonica, sive Vitis Idaea. Ger. Em. 1416./. 



On stony mountainous heaths. 



Not uncommon on the most dry and barren moors of Scotland. 



Shrub. May. 



Stems woody, trailing, spreading extensively, round, with a deci- 

 duous bark. Leaves deciduous, alternate, stalked, obovate, ser- 

 rated, reticulated with copious veins, smooth, except some mar- 

 ginal hairs at the entire part near the base ; withering and pal- 

 lid before they fall. Fl. white, in short terminal clusters. Brac- 

 teas solitary at the base of each flower-stalk, concave, reddish, 

 fringed. Cor. hairy about the mouth. Anth. with veiy short 

 terminal horns. Berry smooth, black, of the size and flavour of 

 black currants. 



Ray and Dillenius did not well distinguish the synonyms of this 

 plant from the following; nor are C. Bauhin's references all 

 correct, under his Vitis Idcea foliis oblongis albicantihus, Pinax 

 470, where he confounds it with Vdccinium uUginosum. 



3. A. Uva zirsi. Red Bear-berry. 



Stems pi'ocumbd^ Leaves obovate, entire. Clusters ter- 

 minal. 



A. Uva ursi. Linn. Sp. PL 566. Fl. Lapp. ed. 2. 129. t. 6. /. 3. 



mild. V. 2. 618. Fl. Br. 443. Engl. Bot. v. \0. t.7 14. JVoodv.- 



Med. Bot. t.70. Lightf. 216. f. 11./. c, d. Hook. Scot. 126. FL 



Dan. t. 33. 

 A. n. 1018. HalL Hist. v. 1. 434. 

 Vaccinia rubra, foliis myrtinis crispis. Merr. Pin, 123. Rail Syn. 



457 ; the synonyms confused. 



