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eight stamens within their cups. They grow in umbels at 

 the ends of the twigs, and also encircle the stems just below 

 the topmost clusters of leaves. When in fruit the seeds are 

 characterized by long appendages at each end. 



Menziesia ferruginea, or Scaly Menziesia, differs from 

 the preceding species in having strigose chaffy ferruginous 

 scales on the young parts of the straggling branches, while 

 the somewhat egg-shaped leaves are thickly covered with 

 rusty appressed straight stiff hairs above, and are pale 

 green and smooth beneath. The flowers are very like those 

 of the Smooth Menziesia. Archibald Menzies, after whom 

 the plants are named, brought the original species from the 

 North West Pacific Coast when he sailed there with Captain 

 Vancouver on his famous voyage of discovery in 1790. 



TRAILING ALPINE AZALEA 



Loiseleuria procumbens. Heath Family 



Stems: tufted, much branched, diffuse. Leaves: mostly opposite, 

 linear-oblong, crowded, entire, the margins strongly revolute. Flow- 

 ers: one to five from terminal coriaceous buds. Fruit: a capsule, sub- 

 globose. 



The Trailing Alpine Azalea is a very attractive though 

 rather rare plant among the mountains. It has lovely little 

 pink bells with purplish sepals growing on erect stalks at 

 the ends of the branches, and crowded dark green leaves 

 which are a paler colour beneath, and have rolled back mar- 

 gins and a very prominent midrib on the under side. 

 There are many botanical romances and interesting geo- 

 graphical suppositions connected with the history of the 

 Heath Family, the presence of some of whose members in 

 Ireland, Cornwall, the Spanish Peninsula and the Azores 

 point to a confirmation of the belief of ancient chroniclers 



