DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Arbutus. 521 
Dicks. H. S.— FI. Ross. i. 71— (E. Bot. 713. E.)— FI. Lapp. 1.2— Plulc. 
175. 1— Park. 76. 7— Wale. — Fl. Dan. 54— J. B. i. a. 227. 1— Buxb. v. 
55. 1 —Ray Ed. i. 1. 1. 
(This plant varies occasonally with quadrifid octandrous flowers, in which 
state it may easily mislead a young Botanist, and be taken for Menziesia 
polifolia. Mr. E. Forster, jun. in Bot. Guide. E.) 
(An elegant evergreen shrub, scarcely a span high. A very judicious 
Botanist suspects that the representation in E. Bot. was taken from a 
specimen of A. polifolia y angustifol. of Willdenow, a Labradorian plant; 
the British species being var. /3 media of that author. —Leaves in a degree 
acuminate, the upper surface a dull green, shining; beneath hoary in 
colour with a strong prominent mid-rib. E.) Blossoms tinged with red. 
Marsh Andromeda. Wild Rosemary. Poly-mountain. Turf and 
peat bogs. Yorkshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Westmoreland, Scotland, 
(and Ireland. E.) Bogs about Halifax. Mr. Crowe. Causeway Moss, 
and Rusland Moss, Furness Fells. Mr. Jackson. Thorn Moor, Yorkshire. 
Mr. Robson. Chartley Moss. Hon. Mr. Bagot. (Prestwick Carr, Nor¬ 
thumberland. Mr. Winch. Kirkconnel Moss. Mr. Arnott. Blair Drum¬ 
mond Moss, plentiful. Mr. Murray. Hook. Scot. E.) S. June. 
A. Daboecia, See Menziesia polifolia. 
AR'BUTUS.* Cal. with five divisions: Bloss. egg-shaped, 
transparent at the base; mouth five-cleft: Berry five- 
celled, superior. 
A. u'nedo. Stem ligneous: leaves smooth, bluntly serrated: panicle 
terminal: berry with many seeds. 
{E. Bot. 2377. E.)— Hunt. Evel. 373. iii. p. 81. Ed. 2— Mill. 48. 1 and 2— 
Clus. i. 47. 2 —Dod. 804. 2— Lob. Obs. 571— Ger. Em. IW—Park. 
1490. 1— J. B. i. a. 83 —Matth. 270— Ger. 1310. 2 —Lonic. i. 56.1. 
Stem, serratures of the leaves , and flower-scales coloured. Calyx, segments 
lapping over each other, coloured at the points. Blossom greenish white, 
a little hairy within, sometimes pinkish, very elegant. Anthers scarlet, 
double, opening at the base, with two yellow horns. (.Berries crimson, 
the size of a cherry, very like a strawberry, being covered with hard 
tubercles, but the seeds are internal. Young shoots often red, and 
rough with glandular hairs. Sm. E.) 
Strawberry-tree. (Irish: Keora Caihne. E.) In the west of Ireland; in the 
county of Kerry; near the Lake of Killarney. Ray. (And on the islands 
thereof. E.) On barren limestone rocks there. Mr. Crowe. S. Sept.f 
* (Diminutive of arbos, a tree ; as resembling a tree in miniature. E.) 
+ It is a beautiful evergreen ornament to our shrubberies, (where also may be observed 
pink, and double varieties, but the latter are scarcely desirable, as they are incapable of form¬ 
ing the more interesting berries, E.) not only on account of its foliage and flowers, 
but of its fruit, which is pleasing to the eye, though not grateful to the taste. (“ The 
pitcher-shaped blossoms contain a delicious repast for butterflies of various kinds. Fre¬ 
quently may they be observed busily engaged with their long and elegant proboscis, 
rifling its hoarded sweets.” Wonders of the Vegetable Kingdom. It has been re¬ 
marked by Mr. Salisbury, that the fruit taking twelve months to come to maturity, this 
plant exhibits simultaneously, and during the depth of winter, the singular phenomenon of 
lively green leaves, beautiful flowers, and brilliant fruit: thus realising the exuberant 
picture of Tasso, * 
