3G ENGLISH BOTANY. 



Sub-Genus I.— EU-EKICA. Benth. 



Anthers lateral, with the filaments aflixed to the back. Corolla 

 ovate-ureeolate or campanulate or globose, with an erect or spread- 

 ing-recurved limb. 



SPECIES I.— ERICA CILIARIS. Linn. 

 Plate DCCCLXXXVII. 



Billot, FI. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1036. 



Stems with numerous short barren branches, which, as well as 

 the main stem, are pubescent, with the pubescence intermixed with 

 gland-tipped hairs. Leaves regularly whorled, 4 in a whorl, very 

 shortly stalked, ovate, with revolute margins, pubescent above, 

 glaucous with white stellate scales beneath except on the midrib 

 which is pubescent, ciliated with long gland-tipped hairs, usually 

 without fascicles of leaves in the axils. Elowers slightly drooping, 

 very shortly stalked, in elongated dense terminal secund spike- 

 like racemes. Pedicels about as long as the calyx, with a leaflike 

 bracteole about the middle, and a leaflike bract at the base. Calyx- 

 segments herbaceous, oblong-lanceolate, ciliated with gland-tipped 

 hairs. Corolla four to six times as long as the calyx, ovate- 

 urceolate-cylindrical, slightly curved downwards, with 4 very short 

 deltoid teeth at the apex. Anthers included, without awns. Style 

 exserted. Capsule glabrous. 



In sandy heaths about Penryn, Truro, and St. Agnes, Cornw^all ; 

 between Arne and Corfe, Dorset ; near Clifden, Galway. 



England, Ireland. Shrub. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Stems wiry, 9 inches to 1 foot high, with numerous short barren 

 branches gradually decreasing in length the higher they are on the 

 stems. Leaves 4-farious, about \ inch long, in distant whorls on 

 the stem, but crowded on the barren branches ; leaves or bracts of 

 the raceme similar to the leaves, but narrower, and attenuated 

 towards the base. Corolla rosy-crimson, paler on the lower side, 

 I to \ inch long, ventricose on the upper side, v/itli the mouth 

 oblique and slightly contracted. Valves of the capsule splitting 

 down the back of each cell. Plant dark-green. 



Fringed-leaved Seath. 



