PERNETTIA PILO'SA. 
PILOSE PERNETTIA. 
Class. 
DECANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOOYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ERICACEAE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
Mexico. 
6 inches. 
July. 
Shrub. 
in 1829. 
No. 819. 
The name of this genus is founded on that of 
Dom Pernetty, who wrote an account of a Voyage 
to the Falkland Islands. 
Pernettia pilosa was first published by Dr. 
Graham, as a species of Arbutus: but on further 
acquaintance it has proved to belong to Pernettia, 
but very nearly allied to Andromeda. Mr. Cam- 
eron, Curator of the Birmingham Botanic Garden, 
favoured us with a growing plant of it, which we 
observe is quite hardy, and a very free flowerer. 
Its berries, Mr. Cameron has noticed, grow through 
the winter, a circumstance we have not had an 
opportunity of witnessing. It is a low close- 
growing shrub, to which, from its size, a place 
should be allotted in the front of the shrubbery, 
or American ground, amongst the smallest species 
of Andromeda, Kalmia, Erica, &c. 
The Pernettia pilosa is usually planted in peat, 
or a mixture of peat and loam; it appears, how- 
ever, to grow very well in turfy loam It may be 
increased by layers, or by cuttings ; the former 
method is the most convenient, as well as produc- 
tive of the strongest plants. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 3, 837. 
