OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Menziesia. 223 



Stem determinately branched, 4 or 5 inches high, decumbent in the 

 lower part, leafy above j branches round, scarred, not hairy or 

 downy. Leaves crowded, spreading every way, on short single- 

 jointed stalks, linear, flat, obtuse, single-ribbed, of a bright 

 shining green, not half an inch long ; rough-edged and finely 

 toothed ; marked with a narrow central furrow above ; the rib 

 downy beneath. Fl. 4 or 5 at the top of the highest branch, 

 drooping, on long, simple, upright stalks, clothed with red glan- 

 dular hairs, without bracteas. Cal. in 5 deep, acute, rather hairy 

 divisions. Cor. much longer, ovate, of a livid or pale blueish 

 red ; ill coloured, from a dried specimen, in Pallas's figure. 



The synonym of Buxbaum, Cent. 4. i. 43, seems, by the figure, 

 very uncertain. 



2. M.. polifolia. Irish Menziesia. 



Leaves ovate, revolute ; downy and white beneath. Flowers 

 four-cleft, octandrous, in terminal leafy clusters. 



M. polifolia. Juss. in Ann. du Mus. v. 1. 55, Jit. H. Kew. ed. 2. 

 V. 2. 360. Sm. in Rees's Cycl. v. 23. n. 3. Hull r. 1. II 1. 



M. Dabeoci. Camp. 61. 



Erica Dabeoci. Linn. Sp. PL 509. Fl. Br. 420. Engl. Bat. v. 1 . 

 ^.35. Huds. 166. Don H. Br. 162. 



E. Daboecia. TVilld. Sp. PL v. 2. 383. mth. 372. 



E. cantabrica, flore maximo, foliis myrti, subtus incanis. Tourn. 

 Inst. 603. DHL in Raii Syn. 4/2. 



E. hibernica, foliis mvrti pilosis subtus incanis. Pet. Gazoph. 6. 

 t.27.f.4. 



Andromeda Daboecia. Linn. Syst. Veg. ed. 13. 338. ed. 14. 406. 



Vaccinium Cantabricum. Huds. ed. 1. 143. 



On mountains in the west of Ireland, in a boggy soil. Ray. 



On Croagh Patrick, in the county of Mayo. A. B. Lambert, Esq. 

 Very abundant in the district of Cunnemara, county of Galway. 

 fVade PL Rar. Hib. 28. 



Shrub. June, July. 



Stems bushy, 12 or 18 inches high, with many simple, upright, 

 leafy branches, at length decumbent and spreading. Leaves 

 numerous, rather crowded, on short stalks, ovate, half an inch 

 long, slightly revolute, entire, single-ribbed, dark green, shining, 

 and besprinkled with glandular hairs, above ; densely clothed 

 with snow-white cottony down, beneath ; the lower ones oppo- 

 site, and sometimes 3 together. Clusters terminal, simple, of 

 numerous large, handsome, purplish-red, droopingj?owers, each 

 accompanied by a little, oblong, hairy, leafy bractea. Cal. in 4 

 deep, acute, hairy, viscid segments. Cor. ovate, with 4 blunt 

 angles, and 4 recurved segments. Stam. 8. Cajjs. of 4 cells, 

 with partitions from the edges of the valves, which is never the 

 case in any true Andromeda, nor have the Jioivers, as far as I 

 have seen, more than 4 segments. 



