CROSS-LEA\'ED HEATH 



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game. The leaves are in whorls of 4, and are lance-shaped, linear, 

 spreading, blunt, the old leaves hairless, the young leaves fringed 

 with hairs, downy above and on the midrib below, the margins rolled 

 back to the midrib — an adaptation to drought. 



The flowers are in a sort of terminal umbel, drooping, rose-coloured, 

 darker above, the parts in fours. The sepals are linear, oblong-lance- 

 shaped, downy. The corolla is regular, egg-shaped, the mouth scarcely 

 oblique. The flower-stalks are short, with bracteoles in the middle. 



Cross-lraved Heath {urica Telraiix, L. ) 



I'liulw. J. H. Crabtree 



The anthers are spurred, with awl-like awns, and are included. The 

 ovary is downy, with hairs tipped with glands. 



The height of this Heath is about i ft. It flowers in June up till 

 August. It is an evergreen shrub, propagated by cuttings, and worth 

 cultivating. 



The flower is bell-like in form aiul drooping, so that honey and 

 pollen are am[)ly protected from rain. The mouth of the clapper is 

 2 mm. wide, nearly taken u|) l)y the long style and stigma, and the 

 tube is contracted in the middle, and 1 mm. wide. A dark glandular 

 honey-ring surrounds the base of the ovary, and the style stands in the 

 centre and fills up the mouth, bearing a black, moist, sticky stigma 

 which is slightly exserted. An in.sect clinging to the flower touches 

 it and is covered with a sticky secretion. 



