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ERICACE^ 



bushy, more glabrous, with broader leaves, and more numerous 

 heads of smaller flowers, occurs only in Connemara. 



4. E. cinerea (Fine-leaved Heath). — The commonest British 

 species, a bushy plant, with tough, wiry stems, very narrow, smooth 

 leaves, 3 in a whorl ; and ovoid, deep rose, or sometimes white, 

 flowers in irregular, whorled, leafy clusters, not confined to one 

 side of the stem. — Heaths; abundant. — FL* July — September. 

 Perennial. 



ERfCA T^TRALIX, E. CILIArIS, E. vAgANS, and E. CINEREA. 



5. E. vdgans (Cornish Heath). — Stems much branched, 2 — 4 feet 

 high, very leafy in the upper parts ; leaves 3 — 5 in a whorl, 

 crowded, very narrow, smooth ; flowers light red, rose-coloured, 

 or pure white, bell-shaped, in a leafy, regular, tapering cluster ; 

 stamens forming a ring outside the corolla until they have shed 

 their pollen, when they droop to the sides, dark red in the red 

 varieties ; light red in the white. — Covering many thousands of 

 acres on the Goonhilley Downs, and on other heaths on the 

 serpentine of the Lizard in Cornwall, almost to the exclusion of 

 E. cinerea and E. Tetralix. — Fl. July — September. Perennial. 



