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chocolate-colour, forming a strong contrast with the pale corolla. 



Cornish Heath. 



French, Brxiyere Vagabonde. 



Plant glabrous 



Sub-Genus II.— ECTASIS. Benth. 



Anthers terminal, fixed by their base so as to be in a continuous 

 line with the filament. 



SPECIES v.— ERICA HIBERNICA. 



Plate DCCOXeill. ^fL- 



E. mediterranea, ft hibernica, Hook. & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 272. 



E. mediterranea, ft Hook in E. B, S. No. 2774. 



E. mediterranea, Linn. ? Bab. Man. Brit. Bot. ed, v. p. 216. 



E. carnea, var. Benth. Handbook Brit. Bot. p. 348. 



Stem stout, much branched, with rather short stiff erect barren 

 and flowering-branches, glabrous. Leaves irregularly whorled, 4 in 

 a whorl, very shortly stalked, entire, without revolute margins, flat 

 above, slightly convex and with a slender furrow beneath, gla- 

 brous above and below, generally without fascicles of leaves in their 

 axils. Elowers slightly drooping, rather shortly stalked, axillary, 

 in rather dense racemes towards the extremity of the branches. 

 Pedicels glabrous, rather longer than the calyx, with ovate scarious 

 bracts at the base, and 2 bracteoles about the middle. Calyx- 

 segments scarious, lanceolate, glabrous. Corolla twice as long as 

 the calyx-segments, oblong-cylindrical-urceolate, with 4 broadly 

 ovate lobes, about one-fourth of the whole corolla. Anthers half 

 exserted, without appendages, the lobes separated for about half 

 their length. Style exserted. 



On bogs and boggy heaths in the West of Mayo and Galway, 

 Ireland. 



Ireland. Shrub. Spring. 



Plant 18 inches to 5 feet high, forming a bush somewhat like 

 E. vagans, but with more spreading branches. Leaves crowded, 

 I to I inch long, not recurved, 8-farious. Pedicels solitary or in 

 pairs in the axils of the leaves. Corolla 3^ inch long, pale-pink. 

 Anthers chocolate-colour, only just appearing beyond the mouth 

 of the corolla. Style slightly exserted at the time of flowering, but 

 more so afterwards. 



This differs from E. mediterranea (Linn.), as represented by 



