. Flowers of the field. Botany. 3o6 ERICACE-'E to the taste than to the eye as to have originated Pliny's name Unedo, " One-I-eat,'' as if no one would wish to try a second ; but birds are very fond of it. —11. September, October. Perennial. 2. (Bear-berr',).--Prostrate under-shrubs with smaller leaves; bi,t only differing essentially from Arbutus in having a smooth fruit widt only one seed in each of its 5 chambers. (Name from the (ireek arctos, a bear, stttpliule, a grape.) I. A. alpiua (Black Bear-berry).—A small, prostrate shrub; leaves obovatc, serrate, thin, wrinkled
. Flowers of the field. Botany. 3o6 ERICACE-'E to the taste than to the eye as to have originated Pliny's name Unedo, " One-I-eat,'' as if no one would wish to try a second ; but birds are very fond of it. —11. September, October. Perennial. 2. (Bear-berr',).--Prostrate under-shrubs with smaller leaves; bi,t only differing essentially from Arbutus in having a smooth fruit widt only one seed in each of its 5 chambers. (Name from the (ireek arctos, a bear, stttpliule, a grape.) I. A. alpiua (Black Bear-berry).—A small, prostrate shrub; leaves obovatc, serrate, thin, wrinkled, shorUy stalked, not ever- green l/Zoiw^w white ; /r;///fleshy, smooth, black.—Dry barren spots on Highland mountains ; rare.—Fl. May—July. Peren- nial. 2. A. Uva-i'irsi (Red Bear- berry)..— Resembling the pre- ceding in its mode of growth, but the leaves are entire, leathery, and evergreen, turning red in autumn ; flowers rose-coloured ; and fruit scarlet.—Mountainous heaths in the north ; abundant. 'J1ie leaves are used in medicine as an astringent, and the fruit is a favourite food of moor-fowl.— Id. May, June. Perennial. 3. ANlik(jMEl).\. —Shrubs and trees, differing from Arbutus mainly'in their dry, 5-chambered, S-valved capsule. ("Named in ,\niiuTcs ixEDo (straivi'':. allusion to the fable of Andro- meda, who was chained to a ruck, and exposed to the attack of a sea-monster; so does this beautiful tribe of plants grow in dreary and northern wastes, feigned to be the abode of preternatural ;—Sir II'. /. Flooker.) I. A. Polifnlia (Marsli -\ndromeda).—The only British species, a small, leafy, evergreen shrub with slender, prostrate stems, scattered lanceolate leaves, revolute and glaucous beneath, and terim'nal clusters of stalked, drooping, pink flowers. -Peat-bogs, chiefly in the north.—Fl. May—Septemjjer. Perennial. 4. Calluna (Ung, Heather).—A much-branched under-shrub with small, opposite, imbricate/cojim,- numerous
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