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L. ERICACEAE. 
\_A'rbutus. 
Peat-bogs. Larlingford, Norfolk ; north of England. Lowlands 
of Scotland. Queen’s county and Kerry, Ireland. b . 5 — 9. — 
A small evergreen shrub, with beautiful oval or urceolate, rose- 
coloured, drooping flowers, a good deal concealed among the termi- 
nal leaves. 
6. A'rbutus Linn. Strawberry-tree. 
Cal. deeply 5-cleft. Cor. ovate, deciduous. Stain. 10. Fruit 
fleshy, usually wanted, 5 -celled; cells many- seeded. — Named, 
according- to Theis, from ar, rough or austere , and boise, a 
bush, in Celtic. 
1. A. U'nedo L. (austere S.) ; stem arboreous, leaves elliptic- 
lanceolate serrate, panicles terminal, fruit tubercled. E. B. 
t. 2377. 
About the Lakes of Killarney, in woods at Muckruss, and at 
Glengariff near Bantry, Ireland, where it adds greatly to the charms 
of the scenery, b- 9> 10 The fruit ripens the following summer. 
Apparently truly wild in the south of Ireland ; though some are of 
opinion that it was introduced by the monks of Muckruss Abbey. 
The young leaves are clothed with glandular hairs. The flowers are 
large, pale, greenish-white. Fruit red. 
7. Arctostaphyi.os Adans. Bear-berry. 
Cal. deeply 5-cleft. Cor. ovate, deciduous. Slam. 10. Fruit 
fleshy, smooth, 5-celled ; cells 1-seeded. — Name : from apuroc, 
a bear, and ora^vXij, a. grape; in allusion to the common name 
of the fruit. 
1. A. alpina Spreng. (black B.) ; stem procumbent, leaves 
wrinkled serrate marcescent, racemes terminal. Arbutus L. : 
E. B. t. 2030. 
Dry barren grounds, on many of the Highland mountains, par- 
ticularly in the extreme north. Ben Nevis, near the lake ; and in 
Sutherland; Hoy hill, Orkney, b- 5. — A trailing shrub, with 
obovate, marcescent leaves which taper down into a footstalk, and 
assume, in autumn, a fine red colour. There are a few hairs on 
the leaf-stalks, and ciliate bracteas at the base of the flower-stalks. 
Corollas urceolate, very pale rose-colour, almost white. Berry black. 
2. A. Uva-ursi Spreng. ( red B .) ; stems procumbent, leaves 
obovate entire evergreen, racemes terminal. Arbutus L. : 
E. B. t. 714. 
North of England and Ireland ; abundant in the Highlands and 
Western Isles of Scotland, growing in dry heathy and rocky places, 
b. 5, 6. — Stems very strong and trailing; leaves obovate, stiff, rigid, 
glabrous, their margins revolute. Flowers in small crowded terminal 
racemes, of a beautiful rose-colour. Berry small, red, mealy, austere, 
yielding excellent food for the moor-fowl. 
