230 DICOTYLEDONS. — ERICE.E. Atulromeda. 



by a dhk^ or secreting glands, many-celled; ovules numerous. 

 St2/le\. S/io'rwa simple or toothed. Cap5z^/e many-celled, 

 many-seeded, sometimes a berry; dissepiments attached to the 

 edge or middle of the valves, or distinct from them. Seeds 

 minute, attached by one extremity to central receptacles. Em~ 

 brijo cylindrical in the axis of a fleshy albumen. 



Shrubs. ' Leaves entire, without stipules, alternate or whorled, 



or opposite. Pedicels with 2 or many bracteas. Br. Mirh. 



1. ERICA. 



Cat. 4-partite. Cor. of 1 petal; limb 4-fid. Stam, 8. An- 

 thers before flowering cmmected by two lateral pores. Caps. 

 4 -celled, 4-valved ; dissepiinents from the middle of the valves. 



1. E. cinerea, anthers with two serrated appendages at the base, 

 style a little exserted, stigma capitate, leaves teruate. p. 119. 

 ■ — Heat J IS. 



2. E. Tetralix, anthers with two awns at the base, style as long 

 as the ovate cor., leaVes in fours ciliated, flowers capitate. 

 p. 1 19. — Moorish grounds. 



2. CALLUNA. 

 Cal. double, 4-partite, inner one coloured. Caps, with the dis- 

 sepiments opposite the margins of the valves, and separating 

 from tiicm. — The rest as in Erica, 

 1. C. vulgaris, p. 119. — Heaths and moors. 



3. MENZIESIA. 

 Cfl/. deeply 5 -cleft. Cor. ovate, 4 — j-cleft. Stam. S — 10. yhi- 

 tilers aunless. Caps. 4 — 5- celled, the partitions formed by 

 the infiexed margins of th.e valves. 

 1. M. ccerulea, leaves scattered numerous linear toothed, flower- 

 stalks terminal aggregate simple, flowers .)- cleft decandrous. 

 p. 12(3. — Mounlains. 



4. AZALEA. 

 Cor. campanulate, 5 -cleft, unequal. Sta^n. 5, inserted upon 



the receptacle. 

 1. A. procujnbens^, stems spreading procumbent, leaves opposite 

 ellipticnl glabrous, their margins revolute. p. 73. — Dry heathy 

 ground. 



5. ANDROMEDA. 



Cal. deeply 5-cleft. Cor. ovate. Stam. 10. Anth. with two 



a This plant has, with much propriety, ht'eu separated from the true Jza~ 

 lece by M. Desvaux in the Jonrual de BotdU'ijiic, and under the name of 

 Loiselcuriu the tollowinij character has been attributed to it : " Cal. 5-par- 

 tite, its segments equal. Cor. subcampanuUite, 5-fid, unequal. Stam. 5, in- 

 serted at the base of the cor., straight, included. Anth. opening longitudi- 

 nally. Style erect, included. Caps. 2-celled, opening at the e.xtremiiy. 

 flowers lerminab cymose, with a broad bractea." 



