380 Professor Swaetz's Observations on Me7iziesia. 



of the valves. 1 beg leave here to add to the above Menziesice. 

 a new species, gathered in the country just mentioned, by the 

 same excellent botanist whose name it bears. 



Menziesia empetriformis ; 



foliis linearibus serrulatis : subtiis concavis, pedunculis termi- 

 nalibus aggregatis, floribus campanulatis decandris, calycibus 

 obtusis. 



This is a much taller plant than the ccerulea, from which it 

 differs moreover in the short and blunt segments of its calyx, the 

 deflexed edges of the leaves, and their stronger serratures. The 

 corolla is deciduous, almost bell-shaped, with a spreading limb, 

 like Rhododendron ferrugineiim, not ovate, and contracted at the 

 mouth, like M. ccerulea. 



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