21^ DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 



are wrinkled on the upper fide thro' the depref- 

 fion of the veins, and reticulated underneath by 

 their prominency -, their edges are flightly fer- 

 rated, and their footftalks have a few ftraggling 

 hairs: the flowers grow in reflexed clufters at 

 the fummits of the branches, each Handing fin- 

 gle upon fhort peduncles : they are of an oval- 

 conical form, and white color, the rim divided 

 into five ftiort, obtufe, reflexed fegments : the 

 berries are globular, fmooth, with a deprefs'd 

 umbilicus, black when ripe, and of the fize of 

 a floe, having five cells containing ^ve feeds, 

 their taflie fomething refembling that of black 

 currants. 



uva urfi 2 1 ARBUTUS cavilibus procumbentibvis, foliis inte- 

 gerrimis. Sp, -pi, 566. {Oed, Dati, L 33. Ger, Em. 

 1416./. 5. Flor. Lapp. t. 6. /. 3. & fig nofi.) 



Bear-berries, Bear-whor^le-berries, Anglis. 



Braoileaga-nan-con. QaulU, 



Upon dry, heathy, mounti^inous and rocky places, 

 throughout the Highland^ and IVeftem IJles : it is 

 fo common a plant that it is almoft needlefs to 

 fpecify places. It abounds however at Bunkeld 

 and Blair^ the feacs of the Duke of Athol, in 

 Ferthjhire. 



To remove mifl:akes I mufl: here obferve, that this 

 is the plant mentioned in Rafs Synopjis^ p. 458, 

 as found by Mr. Lhwyd, growing plentifully for 

 fome miles together in that end of the ifland of 

 M^U next tp T'Columb-kill \ aqd not the AR- 

 BUTUS 



