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stems erect or ascending', slender. Leaves elliptical or oval, 

 attenuated at each end, but generally more so towards the base, 

 very shortly stalked, acute, with revolutc entire margins, glabrous, 

 shining - green above, glaucous-white beneath, with the midrib 

 glabrous and prominent. Plowers drooping, in a sub-umbellate 

 raceme, 2 to 8 at the extremity of the branches of the preceding 

 year. Pedicels long, slender, 1-flowered, with oval scarious 

 bracts at the base, but no bracteoles. Corolla globular-ovate- 

 urceolate, with 5 small revolute acute teeth. Anthers with an 

 awn from the back of each cell ; cells not produced into tubes. 



In peat bogs and on damp moors in the counties of Somerset, 

 Hants, Stafford, Salop, Glamorgan, Denbigh, Chester, York, Lan- 

 caster, the North of England and South of Scotland, not extending 

 North of Perth and K-enfrew. 



England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Early Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stems wiry, 3 to 18 inches long, clothed with slender radical 

 fibres at the base, and with smooth brownish bark. Leaves bearing 

 much resemblance to those of Salix fusca, f to IJ inch long, very 

 variable in breadth, though this, to some extent, no doubt depends 

 how much of the margin is rolled back. Peduncles ^ to f inch long, 

 red. Calyx purple, deeply 5-cleft, with the lobes lanceolate. Corolla 

 J inch long, bright-rose. Capsule erect, sub-globular, pentagonal, 

 very dark-purple, glaucous. 



Marsh Andromeda, Wild Rosemary. 



French, Andromede ct Feuilles de Polium. German, Poleyhlattrige Grcinke. 



This is a well-known common plant in northern bogs, with pretty pink flowers, 

 somewhat like those of the heath, with lanceolate leaves. It is astringent in its 

 nature, and has been used as a substitute for galls. It is said to be narcotic, or, at least, 

 to give an intoxicating property to liquids in which it is infused. It is also alleged to 

 have been destructive to cattle and sheep that have fed upon it ; but, as it always 

 grows in bogs and marshes, it is probable that the situation is more to blame than the 

 plant for their death. 



GENUS r.— LOISELEURIA. Desv. 



Calyx free from the ovary, 5-partite. Corolla hypogynous, 

 deciduous, monopetalous, regular, widely funnelshaped-bellshaped, 

 5-lobed. ^ Stamens 5, nearly free from the corolla, included. 

 Anthers obtuse at the apex, ojoening by longitudinal slits, without 

 awns. Style straight, included. Eruit a capsule, with 2 or 3 cells 



