XLII. ERICA‘CEE : A’RBUTUS. 573 
Gard. 2d ser, t. 276.— Flowers white. Discovered in Cunne- 
mara, in 1820, growing along with the common variety. 
Genus XIV. 
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A’RBUTUS Camer, Tur Arpurus, or STRAWBERRY TREE. Lin, Syst. 
Decandria Monogyfnia. 
Identification. Camer. Epit., p. 163.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 834. 
Synonymes. Andrachne Clus.; A’rbutus sp. Lin. Gen. No. 750.; Arbousier, Fr.; Sandbeere, 
Ger.; Abbatro, Jtad. 
Derivation. From ar bois, austere bush, Celtic ; in allusion to the austere quality of the fruit. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla globose, or ovately campanulate ; limb 
5-cleft, reflexed. Stamens 10, enclosed. Anthers compressed on the sides, 
dehiscing by two pores at the apex, fixed by the back beneath the apex, 
where they are furnished with two reflexed awns. Ovarium seated ona 
hypogynous disk, or half-immersed in it, 5-celled; cells many-seeded. Style 
1. Stigma obtuse. Berry nearly globose, granular. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; serrated or entire. Flowers 
in racemes, terminal, panicled, pedicellate, bracteate, with white or flesh 
coloured corollas. —Trees and shrubs, evergreen ; natives of Europe, Asia, 
and America. 
They are of easy culture, in sandy loam, or loam and peat ; and they are 
readily propagated, the common kinds by layers, cuttings, or seeds, and the 
rarer and tenderer sorts by grafting on those that are more common and hardy. 
All the species have the outer bark more or less tinged with red, and scaly. 
a ¢ 1.4. U'nepo L. The Unedo Arbutus, or Strawberry Tree. 
Identification. Lin. Sp., 566.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 134. 
Synonymes. L’Arbousier commun, Arbousier des Pyrénées, or Fraisier en Arbre, Fr. ; Erdbeere- 
artige Sandbeere, Ger. ; Komaa, Mod. Greek. : 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 2377.; and our fig. 1077. 
Spec. Char., §c. Arboreous. Branch- 
lets clothed with glandular hairs. 
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, 
serrulated. Flowers nodding. Pe- 
duncles smooth. (Don’s Mill,) An 
evergreen shrub or low tree. South 
of Europe, Palestine, and Ireland, 
in the county of Kerry, near the 
Lake of Killarney, on barren lime- 
stone rocks, where the country 
people eat the fruit. Height 10 ft. st 
to 20 ft. Flowers white; Septem-- iss x 
ber and December. Fruit large, 3ssS2ss 
scarlet; ripe in December. 
Varieties. 
sz 2 A. U. 1 dbus Ait. Hort. 
Kew. ii. an 71, — Flowers sie. aetuGe Dae. 
white. is is the com- 
mon sort, raised in nurseries by seed. The flowers are sometimes 
of a greenish or yellowish white, and sometimes reddish. The 
colour of the fruit, also, varies in a similar manner. 
a 2 A, U. 2 miber Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. p. 71.— Flowers reddish. This 
is the handsomest variety in cultivation. It is commonly propagated 
by layers, or by grafting on the species, and sometimes by cuttings. 
A. U. 3 plenus Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. p. 71. — Flowers semidouble. 
