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dull deep-green, glabrous, except the young part of the stem, 

 branches, and pedicels. 



Fine-leaved Heath, Grey Heath. 



French, Bruyere Cendree. German, Graue Glockenheide. 



SPECIES IV. — E R I C A V A G A N S. Linn. 



Plate DGCCXCII. d^3 



Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLXIX. Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 53. 



Stem stout, much branched, with elongate stiff erect branches, 

 glabrous. Leaves irregularly whorled, 4 in a whorl, very shortly 

 stalked, linear, nearly entire, without revolute margins, flat above, 

 slightly convex and with a broad furrow beneath, glabrous above 

 and below except in the furrow, not ciliated, without fascicles of 

 leaves in the axils. Elowers erect, longly stalked, axillary, in 

 dense racemes at or a little way below the extremity of the 

 branches. Pedicels glabrous, elongate, 2 or 3 together, with 

 lanceolate scarious bracts at the base, and about 3 bracteoles 

 below the middle. Calyx-segments scarious, ovate, finely ciliated. 

 Corolla twice or thrice as long as the calyx, at first cup-shaped, 

 afterwards nearly globular, with 4 ovate-deltoid teeth about one- 

 third of the whole corolla. Anthers much exserted, without 

 appendages ; the cells separate throughout their whole length. 



On heaths in Cornwall, chiefly about the Lizard ; reported also 

 from Devon, which is not improbable, and Worcester, Glamorgan, 

 Notts, and Derby (these last localities are probably erroneous) ; 

 also from Ayrshire in Scotland, where, if the species really occurred, 

 it must have been planted ; on an islet near the coast of "Water- 

 ford, near Tramore, Ireland. 



England, Ireland. Shrub. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Plant forming compact bushes. Stem stout, erect, 1 to 3 feet 

 high, much thicker than in any of the preceding species, branched, 

 with very numerous linear slightly recurved bright-green leaves. 

 Leaves |^ to ^ inch long, spreading, 8-farious, usually 4, rarely 5 in 

 each whorl, with the margins sometimes finely and remotely serrate, 

 the central furrow beneath broader than the midrib and with a few 

 white scales. Peduncles so long that the flowers usually project 

 beyond the leaves. Corolla J inch long, pink or rose-colour, differ- 

 ing from all the preceding species in being widely open at the mouth 

 until after flowering, when the segments become connivent. Anthers 



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