DECANDHIA— MONOGYNIA. Andromeda. 251 



Cal. inferior, small, coloured, permanent, in 5 deep, acute 

 segments. Cor. of 1 petal, ovate or bell-shaped ; the limb 

 in 5 small, reflexed segments. Filam. 10, awl~shaped, 

 shorter than the corolla, and scarcely attached to its base. 

 AntJi. incumbent, of 2 oval cells, opening by 2 terminal 

 pores, surmounted by a pair of horns. Germ, roundish, 

 •with 5 furrows. St7/le terminal, cylindrical, longer than 

 the stamens, permanent. Stigma obtuse, notched. Caps. 

 roundish, with 5 angles, 5 cells, bursting at the angles, 

 and 5 valves with partitions from their centre. Seeds nu- 

 merous, roundish, polished. 



Shrubs, with simple, mostly evergreen, leaves, and solitary 

 or aggregate, white or reddish, drooping^ow^r^. 



1. A. poltfolia. Marsh Andromeda. Wild Rose- 

 mary. 



Clusters terminal. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, revolute; 

 glaucous beneath. 



A. polifolia. Linn. Sp. PI. 5G4. Fl. Lapp. ed. 2. 131. t. 1. /. 2. 



Willd. V. 2. 6 1 0. Fl. Br. 44 1 . Engl. Bot. v.\0.t.7\S. Hook. 



Scot. 125. Fl. Dan. t.54. Pall. Ross. v. I. p. 2.53. t.7i. 

 A. n. 1017. Hall. Hist. v. 1. 434. 

 Polifolia. Buxb. Comm.Petrop. v. 2. (ann. 1727.) 345. Cenf. 5.28. 



t.55.f. 1. 

 Ledum palustre nostras, arbuti flore. Rail Syn. 472. 

 Viti Idaeae affinis, polifolia montana. Bauh. Hist. v. I. p. 1.525./. 

 Erica palustris, flore purpurascente pendulo, petiolo longo rubro, 



rorismarini folio, Rudb. Act. Suec. ann. 1720. 97. 

 E, humilis, rorismarini foliis, unedonis flore, capsula cistoide. Pluk. 



Almag. 136. Phyt. 1. 175./. 1. 



On mossy peat bogs, in the mountainous parts of England and 

 Ireland, and the Lowlands of Scotland. 



Shrub. June. 



A most elegant, smooth, evergreen shrub, scarcely a span high, 

 with alternate, rigid, round, leafy branches. Leaves irregularly 

 scattered, on short stalks, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, various in 

 breadth, strongly revolute ; of a dark blueish green above ; 

 very glaucous, with a prominent rib, beneath. Stipulas none. 

 Clusters somewhat umbellate, with white or reddish, bracteated 

 stalks. Fl. pendulous, nearly globular, of a delicate blush-co- 

 lour. Caps, erect. 



A very interesting account of this charming plant is given in Lin- 

 iiseus's Lapland Tour, v. 1. 188. See also Hooker, Scot. 126. 



