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flowers few, purple, on long stalks, leaves linear, crowded, 
rigid, with reflexed margins; Pyrenees, Carniola. 
5. LOISELEURIA, Desv. 
Stem shrubby, rigid, branching; flowers terminal ; 
sepals, corolla-lobes, and stamens 5 each; leaves small, 
entire, opposite, with revolute margins. Alpine. 
L. procumbens, Desv. (Azalea procumbens, L.); flowers 
small, in clusters of 2-4, pink, leaves oval; high; Alps, 
Carpathians, Pyrenees. 
6. RHODODENDRON, L. 
Flowers large, handsome, usually red; sepals and 
corolla-lobes 5 each; stamens 10; leaves alternate, often 
large. European species alpine. 
Two species of Alpine Rose are common in Switzerland, 
and appear to replace our Heaths :—A. ferrugineum, L. 
(Fig. 68); flowers pendant, in terminal umbels, calyx- 
lobes broader than long, leaves glabrous, glandular-viscid 
and rusty brown beneath. &. hirsutum, L.; flowers 
pendant, in terminal umbels, calyx-lobes longer than 
broad, leaves ciliate, green on the under-side; both fairly 
common at high elevations. Also R. Chamecistus, L. 
(Fig. 67); flowers solitary or few, erect, pale pink, leaves 
crowded; high; Tirol, Lombardy, Carniola, Carpathians. 
7, ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, Adans. 
Flowers in terminal racemes, white or pale red; sepals 
5; corolla globose, with five reflexed teeth; stamens Io, 
anthers awned; fruit a drupe, with 5-10 stones. Alpine. 
