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In peat-bogs in the Lowlands not unfrequent, and 

 abundantly upon Solway-Mofs^ on the borders 

 of the tv/o kingdoms, "b . V. & IX. 



This eiegant little flirnb is about fix or eight inches 

 high, ere6l and branched ; the leaves are fefTile, 

 elliptical, rigid, their edges turn'd back, green 

 on the upper fide, glaucous underneath : the 

 peduncles are of a bright red color, and arife 

 from the fummits of the branches, each fup- 

 porting one fingle oval fiov^er, of a pink color, 

 with a red calyx, 



ARBUTUS. Gen. pi 552. 



Cal. 5-partitus. Cor. ovata, ore bafi pellucida. 

 Bac^a 5-locularis. 

 aipina i. ARBUTUS caulibus procunibentibus, follis ru- 

 gofis knms.Sp.pL 566. {Oed. Dan, t, 73. Ger. 

 Em. 141 6. /. 4. ^ fig. noftra.) 



Alpine Arbutus. Anglis. 



Upon many of the highland mountains in dry bar- 

 ren places, particularly on thofe to the Souti of 

 Lit tie Loeh Broom, in Rofs-fiire^- sind thofe in the 

 v;ay between Loch-Broom and Loch- Mar i abun- 

 dantly, &c. I found it likewife upon a moun- 

 tain cail'd Ben-na-grion., in Strath, in the iile of 

 Skye, two miles above M'Kennon's Calile, ip . V. 



The branches of this ibrub trail fiat upon the 

 ground, two or three feet round the root, having 

 a brown deciduous bark : the leaves grow al- 

 ternate, of a long oval form, gradually dimi- 

 nlfiiing towards the bafe into a footfi;alkv they 



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