LI. PYROLACE^. 



263 



:AretostdphylosJ] . 



lanceolate serrate, panicles terminal,' fruit tubercled. E. B. 

 t. 2377. 



About the Lakes of Killarney, In woods at Mucruss and at 

 Glen^rariff near Bantry, Ireland, where it adds greatly to the charms 

 of the scenery. \. 9, 10. — The fruit ripens the foUowuig summer. 

 Apparently truly wild in the south of Ireland ; thousrh some are of 

 opinion that it had been introduced by the Monks of Mucruss Abbey. 

 The young leaves are clothed with glandular hairs. The flowers arc 

 lar^-e, pale greenish-white. Fruit red. 



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7. Arctostaphtlos Adcms. Bear-berry. 



■ Cah deeply 5-cleft. Cor. ovate, deciduous. Stam 10. Fruit 

 'fleshy, smooth, 5-celled; cells 1 -seeded. — IN" ame from apKrog^ 

 ^hear^ and (Traf^vX)]^ n. grape ^ in allusion to the common name 

 of the fruit. 



* 1. A. alpina Spreng. (black B.); stem procumbent, leaves 

 wrinkled serrate marcescent, racemes terminal. Arbutus Z. : 

 £. B. t. 2030.. 



■ Dry barren grounds, on many of the Highland mountains. Ben 

 Nevis, near the lake; and more frequent on the northern mountains 

 and in Sutherland. Hoy hill, Orkney. Tj . 5. — A trailing iVzrwZ*, 

 with obovate, marcescent haves which taper down into a footstalk, 

 and assume, in autumn, a fine red colour. There are a kw hairs 

 on the leaf-stalks, and ciliated bracteas at the base of the flower-stalks, 

 '.Corollas urceolate, very pale rose-colour, almost white. Berrt/ i)lack. 



T^ 2. A. Uva Ursi Spreng. (red B) ; stems procumbent, leaves 

 obovate entire evergreen, racemes terminal. Arbutus L, : 

 i?. _B, t. 714. 



North of England and Ireland; especially abundant In the High- 

 lands and Western Isles of Scotland, growing in dry heathy and 



Stems very strong and trailing; /eaves 



Flowers in 



rocky places. Tj . 5, 6. 



obovate, stiff, rigid, glabrous, their margins revolute. 



small crowded terminal racemes, of a beautiful rose-colour. 



B e rry 



small, red, mealy, austere, yielding excellent food for the moor-fowl. 



Ord. LI. PYEOLACEiE Lindl 



Calyx 5-partIte, persistent. Corolla regular, deciduous. 

 StnmeuH 10, placed in pairs opposite the petals: ardhers 2- 

 celled, inverted, opening by pores. Ovary "without a con- 

 spicuous hypogynous disk, 5-celled, many-seeded. Style single. 

 Stigma rayed or orbicular, generally lobed. Capside 5-celled, 

 5-valved loculicidal. Seeds chaffy, numerous. Albumen fleshy, 

 with the minute embryo at its base. — Herbaceous or somewhat 

 shrubby. Chimaphila of North America is a powerful diuretic. 



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