ERICACE^. 47 



remotely callous-denticulate or subcrenate. Flowers drooping, in 

 a long raceme at the termination of the scape. Calyx-segments 

 lanceolate, rarely ovate - acute, entire. Petals slightly concave, 

 scarcely connivent, pure white. Stamens bent upwards. Style 

 bent down, much longer than the stamens, and exceeding the 

 petioles, curved upwards at the apex ; stigma with a sharp-edged 

 elevated ring, above which there are 5 blunt erect points. Cap- 

 sule drooping ; style nearly twice as long as the capsule. 



Var. a, genu'ina. 



Plate DCCCXCV. 



Rdch, Ic. Fl. Gei-m. et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLIII. Fig. 1. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1528. 



Leaves large. Scape with only a few scattered empty scalelike 

 bracts. Pedicels a little longer than the calyx. Calyx-segments 

 lanceolate. 



Var. ^, arenaria. Koch. 



Plate DCCCXCVI. 



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



P. rotundifolia, fi bracteata, Hooh. k Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 276. Bah. Man. Brit. Bot. 



ed. V. p. 218. 

 P. tnaritima, Kercyon, in Phyt. Ser. I. Vol. II. p. 727. 



Leaves much smaller than in var. a, not so abruptly contracted 

 into the petiole. "Scape generally with numerous empty scalelike 

 bracts throughout its whole length. Pedicels about as long as the 

 calyx. Calyx-segments ovate. 



In woods and in bushy and reedy places. K-are. It has 

 occurred in the counties of Kent, Norfolk, Stafford, York, 

 Northumberland, Peebles, Eife and Kinross, Porfar. It has been 

 recorded from many other counties ; but these are all which have 

 been authenticated by specimens seen by Mr. Watson or myself, 

 or sufficiently probable on other grounds ; var. (3 apparently 

 confined to the sandy sea-shore about Lytham and Southport, 

 Lancashire. 



England, Scotland. Perennial. Late Summer 

 and Autumn. 



Hootstock creeping, woody, imperceptibly passing into the short 

 decumbent stem. Leaves in an imperfect rosette at the apex of the 

 stem, 1 to 2 inches long, and generally nearly as broad, on petioles 



