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ARBUTUS hybrida. 
Mule Strawberry-tree. 
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DECANDRIA MONOGYNI4. 
Nat. ord. Ericem. Jussicu gen. 159. Div. £. Germen superum. 
ARBUTUS, Supra vol. 2. fol. 113. 
A. hybrida, cottice deciduo, germine subdepili. 
Arbutus andrachnoides, foliis oblongis acutis serrulatis glabris pedunculis 
pubescentibus, calyce glabro. Link enum. hort. berol. alt. 1. 395. 
Valdé affinis ARBUTO Andrachnei, at variis notis diversa. Cortex ut in 
illd secedit. Folia semper serrulata, multd magis acutata, nec oblusa. Pani- 
cula terminalis sewracemus compositus, pedunculis et pedicellis pilis brevibus 
versus extremitates densis, nec longis glandulosis. Calyx brevis glaber nec 
ciliatus. Corolla 4-5-linearis, alba. Link loc. cit. 
A very handsome shrub, and pretty common in the 
nurseries about London; from whence it probably. found 
its way to Berlin, where it has been taken for a dstinct 
species by Professor Link in the work we have cited. Our- 
selves, we have scarcely a doubt of its hybrid descent from 
Arsutus Unedo and Argutus Andrachne; seeing the resem- 
blance to each so equally distributed throughout the whole 
plant ; where we can find no one point which, in our appre- 
hension, is decidedly different from both of them, and 
consequently no specific distinction that holds good in 
regard to each. It is this equally proportioned resemblance 
of our plant to the two species we have mentioned, and the 
want of any single mark distinct from each of them, that 
induces in us the persuasion of its mule origin. The flowers 
and foliage are much handsomer than in either Unedo or 
Andrachne. Yt has the deciduous bark of the latter, and _ 
the nearly furless germen of the former; and there 1s no 
one mark but belongs to one or other of these species, oF 
is compounded of one of each species; or in other words 
there is no specific difference in respect to those two species. 
The drawing was taken by Mr. Sydenham Edwards, at 
the Nursery of Messrs. Whitley and Co. in the King’s Road, 
Fulham; where it flowers very early in the spring. Phe 
bloom is ornamental and smells like honey. 
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