34 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



at the base. Plant wliolly pubescent, with gland-tipped hairs, 

 except the under sides of the leaves. 



On boggy heaths in the West of Ireland ; abundant in Conne- 

 mara, on Croagh Patrick, co. Mayo. 



Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



Bootstock creeping. Stem woody, with brown bark splitting off 

 in flakes, decumbent at the base, then erect, 9 inches to 2 feet high, 

 branched, with the branches mostly simple, erect, and, as well as 

 the rachis and pedicels, finely pubescent, and clothed with long 

 gland-tipped hairs. Leaves very numerous, i to ^ inch long, when 

 young very narrow, from the margins being much rolled back, but 

 becoming apparently broader when old by the margins unfolding ; 

 axils of the leaves generally with fascicles of smaller leaves. Plowers 

 3 to IG, drooping, sub-secund, in an elongated raceme. Calyx- 

 segments lanceolate, triangular, pubescent, and with long gland- 

 tipped hairs. Corolla crimson-purple, -J to f inch long, broadly ovate- 

 ovoid, sub-urceolate, with 4 short obtuse slightly-reflexed lobes 

 clothed with a few gland-tipped hairs. Anthers included, dark- 

 purple, very long. Capsule erect, ovoid-conical, clothed with long 

 land-tipped hairs. 



o 



St. Daheois Heath. 

 French, Menziese Daheoie. 



Sub-Gentjs II.— PHYLLODOCE. Salisb. 



Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla-limb 5-toothed. Stamens 10 ; 

 filaments slender, longer than the anthers ; anthers rather short, 

 rounded at the base ; cells truncate at the apex. Stigma peltate, 

 with 5 tubercles. Capsule 5-celled, 5-valved. 



SPECIES II.-M ENZIESIA C^RULEA. Swarlz. 



Plate DCCCLXXXVI. 



Meich. Ic. FL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLX. Fig. 3. 



Phyllodoce caerulea, Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed. v. p. 216. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. 



Vol. II. p. 434. 

 Phyllodoce taxifolia, Salish. D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 713. 

 Andromeda cterulea, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 5G3. 

 Erica cserulea, Willdenow, Sp. PI. Vol. II. p. 393. 



Leaves evergreen, strap-shaped, obtuse, with the margins very 

 finely serrulate, not rcvolute, green on both sides, glabrous above 

 and below, except the midrib, which is pubescent. Flowers 



