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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. — Fl. September, October. Perennial. 



2. Arctostaphylos (Bear-berry). — Prostrate under-shrubs with 

 smaller leaves; but only differing essentially from Arbutus in 

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

 (Name from the Greek arctos, a bear, staphule, a grape.) 



1. A. alpina (Black Bear-berry). — A small, prostrate shrub; 

 leaves obovate, serrate, thin, wrinkled, shortly stalked, not ever- 

 green ; flowers white ; fruit fleshy, 

 smooth, black. — Dry barren 

 spots on Highland mountains ; 

 rare. — Fl. May— July. Peren- 

 nial. 



2. A. Uva-ursi (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. 

 The leaves are used in medicine 

 as an astringent, and the fruit is 

 a favourite food of moor-fowl. — 

 Fl. May, June. Perennial. 



3. Andromeda. — Shrubs and 

 trees, differing from Arbutus 

 mainly in their dry, 5-chambered, 

 5-valved capsule. ("Named in 

 allusion to the fable of Andro- 

 meda, who was chained to a rock, 



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 W. J. Hooker.) 



1. A. Polifolia (Marsh Andromeda). — The only British species, 

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

 scattered lanceolate leaves, revolute and glaucous beneath, and 

 terminal clusters of stalked, drooping, pink flowers. — Peat-bogs, 

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



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

 with small, opposite, imbricate leaves; numerous, stalked, bracteate, 



arbutus unedo {Strawberry-tree). 



