DECANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Aiidronieda. 251 



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

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

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

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

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

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

 widi 5 furrows. Style 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. 



S/irubs, with simple, mostly evergreen, leaves, and solitary 

 or aggregate, white or reddish, drooping Jloivers. 



1. K. polifoVia. Marsh Andromeda. Wild Rose- 

 mary. 



Clusters terminal. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, revolute ; 

 glaucous beneath. 



A. polifolia. Linn. Sp. PL d64. Fl. Lapp. cd. 2.\3\.t.l.f. 2. 



Willd.v. '2. 610. Fl.Br. 44]. Engl. Bot. v. ]0. t.7\3. Hook: 



Scot. 125. Fl. Dan. t. 54. Pall. Rosa. v. J . p. 2. 53. t.7\. 

 A. n. 1017. Hall. Hi^t.v.l. 434. 

 Polifolia. Buxb. Comm. Petrop. v. 2. {ann. 1/27.) 345. Cent. 5.28. 



/.55./. 1. 

 Ledum palustrc nostras, arbiUi flove. Raii Syn.472. 

 \'iti Iclaeae aflinis, polifolia montana. Bauh. Hist. v. I. p. 1. 525./, 

 Erica palustris, florc purpurasccnte ])cndulo, petiolo longo rubro, 



rorismarini folio. Rudb. Jet. Siitc. ann. 1720. 97. 

 E. humilis, rorismarini foliis, unedonis florc, capsula cisloide. Pluk. 



Almag. 136. Phyt. t. \75.f. 1. 



Dn mossv peat bogs, in the mountainous parts of England and 

 Ireland, and the low-lands of Scodand. 



Shrub. June. 



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

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

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

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

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

 Clusters somewhat umbellate, with white or reddish, brae teated 

 stalks. /•'/. pe!ululous, nearly globular, of a delieate blush-co- 

 lour. Capa. erect. 



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

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



