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Moray; Ben Wyvis, and several other places in Ross-shire; not 
uncommon in Sutherland, and in the Isle of Hoy, Orkney ; Ronas 
Hill, Shetland. The specimen figured in "English Botany" was 
said to be found near the head of Loch Traig, Perthshire, by Mr. 
G. Don ; but I cannot find any indication of its recent occurrence 
in that county. 
Scotland. Shrub. Early Summer. 
Stems variable in length, rather thick, with smooth brown bark, 
splitting oil' in patches, and somewhat scaly; young shoots red. 
Leaves crowded, ,', to l! : inch long, rugose above, often tinged with 
red, obovate, gradually attenuated into a wedgeshaped base, which 
passes imperceptibly into the very short petiole. Flowers about 
J inch long, white tinged with green. Anthers chocolate-brown. 
Berry about the size of a black currant, bluish-black. 
Alpine Bearberry. 
French, Arbousier des Alpes. German, Barentravbe. 
The common name of Bearberry may have been given to this plant cither from 
the notion that bears eat the fruit, or from its very acerb and unpleasant nature. 
SPECIES It— A RCTOSTAPHYLOS U V A-U R S I. Wimm. 
Plate DCCCLXXXT. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XYIT. Tab. MCXLVIt Fig. 3. 
'. Fl. Gall, et Germ. E.xsicc. Xo. 170G. 
Arbutus Uva-ursi, Linn. JStn. Eng. But. Xo. 714. 
Stems procumbent ; shoots of the year pubescent. Leaves 
coriaceous, evergreen, obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse or sub-acute, 
very shortly stalked, entire, glabrous, thickly ciliated with very 
short woolly hairs, smooth and dark shining-green, with the veins 
slightly impressed above, pale-green and with the veins prominent 
and forming a coarse network beneath, minutely dotted on both sides 
when dry. Flowers drooping, aggregated in short crowded racemes, 
of from 3 to 15 flowers, at the apex of the branches of the pre- 
ceding year, appearing before the young leaves. Pedicels short, 
about as long as the bracts. Bracts scarious, lanceolate, ciliated. 
Corolla ovate-urccolate, with 4 or 5 short reflcxed obtuse teeth, 
which arc hairy within. Appendages of the anthers nearly as 
long as the filaments. Berry smooth, scarlet-red, shining. 
On heaths and barren places in hilly districts. Not uncommon. 
From Derby, York, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, northward 
to Orkney and Shetland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Early Summer. 
