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to the taste than to the eye as to have originated Pliny's name 

 Unedo, " One-I-eat,'' as if no one would wish to try a second ; but 

 birds are very fond of it. — 11. September, October. Perennial. 



2. ARCT0ST.4rnvL0S (Bear-berr',).-- Prostrate under-shrubs with 

 smaller leaves; bi,t only differing essentially from Arbutus in 

 having a smooth fruit widt only one seed in each of its 5 chambers. 

 (Name from the (ireek arctos, a bear, stttpliule, a grape.) 



I. A. alpiua (Black Bear-berry). — A small, prostrate shrub; 

 leaves obovatc, serrate, thin, wrinkled, shorUy stalked, not ever- 

 green l/Zoiw^w white ; /r;/// fleshy, 

 smooth, black. — Dry barren 

 spots on Highland mountains ; 

 rare. — Fl. May — July. Peren- 

 nial. 



2. A. Uva-i'irsi (Red Bear- 

 berry).. — Resembling the pre- 

 ceding in its mode of growth, 

 but the leaves are entire, leathery, 

 and evergreen, turning red in 

 autumn ; flowers rose-coloured ; 

 and fruit scarlet. — Mountainous 

 heaths in the north ; abundant. 

 'J1ie leaves are used in medicine 

 as an astringent, and the fruit is 

 a favourite food of moor-fowl. — 

 Id. May, June. Perennial. 



3. ANlik(jMEl).\. — Shrubs and 

 trees, differing from Arbutus 

 mainly'in their dry, 5-chambered, 

 S-valved capsule. ("Named in 

 ,\niiuTcs ixEDo (straivi'Ofy.hrc':. allusion to the fable of Andro- 

 meda, who was chained to a ruck, 

 and exposed to the attack of a sea-monster ; so does this beautiful 

 tribe of plants grow in dreary and northern wastes, feigned to be 

 the abode of preternatural monsters." — Sir II'. /. Flooker.) 



I. A. Polifnlia (Marsli -\ndromeda).— The only British species, 

 a small, leafy, evergreen shrub with slender, prostrate stems, 

 scattered lanceolate leaves, revolute and glaucous beneath, and 

 terim'nal clusters of stalked, drooping, pink flowers. -Peat-bogs, 

 chiefly in the north.— Fl. May— Septemjjer. Perennial. 



4. Calluna (Ung, Heather).— A much-branched under-shrub 

 with small, opposite, imbricate /cojim,- numerous, stalked, bracteate, 



