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ARBUTUS UNEDO. 
NAT. CLASS, — DICOTYLEDONES ; ORDER, — ERICACEÆ. ART. CLASS,- 
DECANDRIA ; ORDER,— MONOGYNIA. 
This handsome tree is indigenous to Ireland. It is 
evergreen, with elliptic-lanceolate leaves, serrated at 
the edges, and in the young state these are clothed 
with glandular hair. The flowers are in panicles, the 
calyx monosepalous, deeply five-cleft. The corolla 
monopetalous, ovate, with the limb five-cleft, and re- 
flexed, of a pale greenish tint, and waxy appearance. 
There are ten stamens attached to the base of the 
corolla, with their filaments short and dilated at the 
base; their anthers bursting at the apex by two 
pores. The pistil has a five-celled ovary, simple 
style, and blunt stigma. This becomes a five-celled 
crimson berry, covered with tubercles, which give it 
the general appearance of a strawberry, though it is 
no way allied to that fruit in its structure. 
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