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MENZIES’S STRAWBERRY TREE. 
ARBUTUS menziesii, arbor ea, foliis ellipticis acutis subserratis longe 
petiolatis glabris , racemis paniculatis densifloris axillaribus terminali - 
busque. 
Arbutus menziesii. Pursh. Flor. Bor. Amer. 1 , p. 282. 
Arbutus laurifolia ? Linn. Suppl. 238. 
Arbutus grocer a. Douglas, Bot. Reg. tab. 1573. 
This is rather a common species on the banks of the 
Oregon and the Wahlamet, below Fort Vancouver, in 
rocky places where it becomes a tree 30 to 40 feet high, 
with a smooth and even light-brown trunk, from which the 
old bark exfoliates, so that it appears as if it were stripped 
nearly down to the living surface. The top is somewhat 
pyramidal and spreading. The leaves, resembling those of 
the laurel, are thick and of a rigid consistence, crowded 
towards the extremities of the branches, they are chiefly 
elliptic and mostly entire, though on the young shoots 
sharply serrate. The flowers are very abundant, in dense 
pyramidal panicles, made up chiefly below, of axillary 
sessile racemes, they are nearly globular and yellowish- 
white ; these are at length succeeded, about August, by 
fine showy clusters of orange-yellow berries, which are 
rather dry, and coated with a thin layer of granular tuber- 
cular pulp. 
This species appears to be very closely allied to A. An- 
draclme of the Levant, and I suspect it is not sufficiently 
distinct from A. laurifolia of Linnaeus. At any rate, there is 
certainly but one arborescent species of the genus in the 
