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EPACRÍS impressa ; var. parviflora. 
Small-flowered Pitted Epacris. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. EPACRIDACER. 
EPACRIS. Bot. Reg. vol. 18. fol. 1531. 
E. impressa; ramulis pubescentibus, foliis sessilibus ovatis acuminatis pungen- 
tibus margine scabriusculis subtus obsoleté nervosis, floribus axillaribus soli- 
tariis pendulis subsessilibus, sepalis acutis margine lanulosis, corollà cylin- 
draceá rectá basi foveatá. 
E. impressa. Lab. nov. holl. 1. 43. t. 58. R. Brown prodr. 407. Sweet fi. 
australas. t. 4. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1691. Bot. Mag. t. 3407. 
B. parviflora ; foliis acutissimis pungentibus margine scabris, corollæ atro-rosez 
tubo cylindraceo limbi laciniis acutissimis, 
The supposed species of Epacris from Van Diemen's 
Land are so very difficult to limit, that it is not improbable 
that many of them are mere varieties of each other. It 
must be obvious enough to any one who is acquainted with 
them in gardens, that the same parcel of wild seeds yields 
strikingly different individuals ; and this is confes to 
what occurs in their native haunts. 
Mr. Gunn, whose accurate observations are invaluable 
as regards the Botany of Van Diemen's Land, and who has 
studied these plants with considerable attention, has lately 
sent over numerous wild specimens of what he regards as 
one species, concerning which he observes, that ‘‘ the colours 
vary from a deep red, through all the paler shades of blush, 
to pure white, so that colour constitutes no distinction ; size 
is as variable." He distinguishes four chief varieties, viz. 
1. red flowering, tall; 2. red flowering, dwarf ; 3. white 
flowering, tall; 4. white flowering, dwarf; in addition to 
which many others might be named. 
