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20. E. cmpetrifolia. Crow Berry-leaved Heath; 21. E. capitata, WooWy 

 Heatli; 22. E. ttibifiora. Tube-flowered Heath; 23. E. conspkua, 

 Long-lubed Yellow Heath; 24. E. ceiinthiotlcs, Honeywort-flowered 

 Heath; 25. E. comosa, TiifKid-flowered Healli ; 26. E. 7rinsmu, Tall 

 Downy Heath; 27. E. Plnkcnctii, Sinooth-t\vig<2;ed Pencil-floweicd 

 Heath; 28. E. Petiveri, J)owny-twio(Ted Peneil-flowered Heath; 29. 

 E. herhacea. Early-flowered Dwarf Heath; 3(). E. grandijiora. Great- 

 flowered Heath. 



Thrie are many other species equally deserving of cultivation. 

 The first has shrubby stems, from nin(^ to twelve inches high, 

 branched, l)rown, somewhat rugged from the remains of the leaves 

 which have fallen of!': branches a little woolly: the leaves are com- 

 monly in fours, but sometimes in fives, ovate-linear, spreading, near 

 the flowers pressed close to the stem, the edges turned in and ciliated, 

 each hair terminating in a small round gland; the upper surface is 

 flat, the lower concave and while: flowers haniiino; down one over 

 another all one way. It is a native of the northern parts of Europe, 

 flowering in July and August; but according to Linnaeus, twice iu 

 the year. , 



It is not inferior to many of the foreign heaths in the beauty and 

 delicacy of its flowers. 'I'his is distinguished from the other British 

 heaths, not only by the flowers growing in a kind of pendulous clus- 

 ter on the tops of the stalks, but by the leaves growing in fours, and 

 forming a sort of cross. 



The second species has a perennial woody root: the stems 

 shrubby, about a foot high, with opposite branches: the bark ash- 

 coloured: the leaves are linear, fleshy, spreading; above smooth and 

 shining, transversely wrinkled; towards the end beset with a lew 

 scattered hair-like points; beneath having a longitudinal furrow, 

 which is white from a woolliness apparent to the magnifier; the edge 

 somewhat membranaceous, and when viewed with the microscope 

 appearing serrulate: the leaves, when young, have three flat sides, 

 but when full grown are nearly flat: the flowers are in long clustered 

 whorls terminating in spikes, of a deep purple colour, sonorous when 

 struck; ihcy come out from ihe sides of the young shoots; those 



