Erricacce—.lrbutis. 279 
about the lakes of Killarney, in Ireland, and the West and 
South of Europe generally. 
2. A. Andrichne.-—A Mediterranean species, larger in all 
its parts, having laurel-like leaves and smooth berries. The 
bark of this is of a reddish tinge and deciduous, peeling off in 
slender strings. There are some hybrid varieties between this 
and the foregoing of intermediate character. 
A. procera is a North American species requiring protection. 
It is closely allied to the last, but with serrated leaves and a 
smaller racemose panicle of white flowers. A. Crodmit is 
another of the large-leaved group. 
Arctostaphylos alpina, Bearberry, is an indigenous dwarf 
branching shrub. Leaves deciduous, spathulate, toothed, net- 
veined. Flowers small, white. Fruit a drupe, containing 5 to 
10 1-seeded stones. 
Brydnthus eréctus is a charming Heath-like shrub about 
a foot high, having pentamerous broadly-campanulate red 
flowers. It was formerly supposed to be of hybrid origin between 
Rhododéndron Chameecistus and Menziésia cwrilea; but it 
is now known to be a native of Siberia, and has probably no 
more title to be called a hybrid than any other wild plant. 
7. RHODODENDRON. 
Shrubs or trees with few exceptions evergreen. Flowers 
showy, funnel-shaped, or irregularly 5-lobed. Stamens usually 
10, and declinate. Flower-buds clothed with leafy scales. 
Fruit capsular, splitting between the cells; seeds numerous. 
There are two or three North American species, several alpine 
and arctic in Europe and Asia; but they are found in the 
greatest numbers in the mountains of India. The name is of 
Greek derivation, signifying Rose-tree. 
1. Rh. ferrugineum. Rose of the Alps.—A dwarf compact 
shrub about 2 feet high. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, glabrous 
above, rusty-scaly beneath. Flowers about 2 inch in diameter, 
rosy-red, in terminal clusters. From May to July. 
2. Rh. hirsutum. Rose of the Alps.—Very much like the 
preceding, but the elliptical leaves are minutely toothed and 
ciliated, and furnished with resinous dots below. 
3. Rh. cilidtum.—A very handsome and distinct species 
clothed with hispid hairs. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, ciliate, 
scaly below, slightly coriaceous. Flowers large, campanulate, 
delicate rosy-pink and white. A Sikkim species of which 
there are several fine varieties. 
