. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XLIII. £RICa'c£^ : ^RCTOSTA PHYLOS. 577 in panicles that are terminal and composed of approximate racemes. Pedi- cels furnished with 3 bracteas at the base. Corolla oval, white. Filaments dilated and pilose at the base. (Don's Mill.) A robust shrub or low tree. Mexico, on the eastern d
. Trees and shrubs : an abridgment of the Arboretum et fruticetum britannicum : containing the hardy trees and schrubs of Britain, native and foreign, scientifically and popularly described : with their propagation, culture and uses and engravings of nearly all the species. Trees; Shrubs; Forests and forestry. XLIII. £RICa'c£^ : ^RCTOSTA PHYLOS. 577 in panicles that are terminal and composed of approximate racemes. Pedi- cels furnished with 3 bracteas at the base. Corolla oval, white. Filaments dilated and pilose at the base. (Don's Mill.) A robust shrub or low tree. Mexico, on the eastern declivities between La Plata and Xalapa. Height 20 fl.; in. British gai'dens 5 ft. to 10 ft. Introduced in 1826. Flowers white; December. Other Speaes apparently hardy. â A. spedbsa Dickson, Gard. Mag. 1840, p. 4. Leaves lanceolate, finely serrated, glaucous on the under side, and bright green above. Probably a large bush or small tree. JMexico, 1837. Another species, and also A. nepalensk Royle, have been raised in the H. S. Garden. Genus XV. ^RCTOSTA'PHYLOvS Adans. The Bearberry. Lin. Syst. Decandria Monogynia. Identtjication. Adans. Fam.; Don's Mill., 3. p. SZ5. Si/noni/7nes. UVa-ursi Tourn.; A'Tbntm sp. Lin. Derivation. From arktos, a bear, and staphule, a grape. Gert. Char. Calyx 5-parted. Corolla globose or ovate-campanulate; limb 5-cleft, reflexed. Stamens 10, enclosed ; filaments dilated at the base, and pilose. Anthers compressed at the sides, dehiscing by two pores at the apex, fixed by the back beneath the middle, where they are furnished with two reflexed horns. Ovarium seated on the hypogynous disk, or half- immersed in it, usually 5-celled, rarely 6â9-celled ; cells 1-seeded. Styles 1 Stigma obtuse. Drupe neai'ly globose. (Don's Mill.) Leaves simple, alteinate, exstipulate, evergreen or deciduous ; entire or serrated. Flowers in terminal racemes, pedicellate bracteate. Corollas white or flesh-coloured. Drupes red or black. â Shrubs or subshrubs, decidu
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