1082 ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. PART III. 
long, pale red. Style prominent. (Don’s Mill, iii. 
p. 799.) A native of Portugal, and of England, in 
Cornwall. This comparatively rare species, Sir 
W. J. Hooker observes, is always found in boggy 
places, and never on dry ground. “ It is unquestion- 
ably the most interesting and beautiful addition 
that has been made to our British flora for many 
years. The flowers are as large as those of Men- 
ziesia czertlea Wall., Phyllédoce taxifolia Sal., and 
more highly coloured; while the leaves are elegantly 
fringed with hairs, and each hair is tipped with a 
gland.” (Brit. Flor., p.177.) The usual height is 
about a foot. A hybrid between this species and 
E. Tétralix is noticed in p. 1079. 
# 9. E. si/cuLa Schonberg. The Sicilian Heath. 
Identification. Schonberg in Linnea, 2. p. 614. ; Don’s Mill. 3. p. 799. 
Spec. Char., §c. A shrub, 2 ft. to3 ft. high. Leaves 4 in a whorl, linear, nearly cylindrical, canes- 
cent. Flowers erect, canescent, on long pedicels, in terminal umbel-like groups. Bracteas and 
segments of calyx membranous, coloured, about as long as the corolla. Corolla ovate, oblong, 
pale bi “ties (Don’s Mill., iii. p. 799.) A native of Sicily. Introduced in 1819; but we have not seen 
e plant. 

Genus II. 
lai. Fes = 
GYPSOCA‘LLIS Sal. Tur Gypsocatus, or Moor Heatu. Lin. Syst. 
Octandria Monogynia. 
ae nail Salisbury’s MSS.; D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 153.; Don’s Mill., 3. 
p. 800. 
Synonyme. Ericz sp. of other authors. 
Derivation. ‘ From gupsos, lime, and kallistos, most beautiful ; the plants [kinds] are very elegant, 
and generally inhabit calcareous districts.” (Don’s Mill.) 

Description, §c. The species are mostly undershrubs, not exceeding 1 ft. 
in height; but G. mediterranea (#. mediterranea L.) grows to the height of 
10 ft. or 12 ft., or upwards. 
» 1.G. va’Gans Sal. The wandering Gypsocallis, or Cornish Moor Heat'. 
Identification. Sal. MSS.; D. Don in Edin. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 153.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 800. 
Synonymes. E.vagans Lin. Mant., 2. p. 230., Lin. Syst., 370., Eng. Bot., t.3.; E. vaga Sal. in 
Lin. Soc. Trans., 6. p.344.; E. multiflora Huds. Fl. Anglica, 166., Bull. Fl. Par., t.203.; E. di- 
dyma Stokes in Withering’s Bot. Arrangement, 400.; E. purpurascens Lam. Dict., 1. p. 488. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t.3.; Bull. Fl. Par., t. 203.; and our fig. 870. 
Spec. Char., §c. Stem glabrous. Leaves 4—5 in a whorl, conti- 
guous, glabrous. Flowers small, upon footstalks, axillary, mostly 
2 in an axil, and those of any branch seeming as if disposed in a 
raceme, from the flowers being stalked and produced from axils Vx 
near one another. Bracteas remote from the calyx. Corolla short, i 
bell-shaped, pale purplish red. (Don’s Mill., iii. p.800.) A native 
of England, in Cornwall; and of the south of France and north 
of Africa. é 
Varieties. ' 
« G. v. 2 pallida.—Corolla pale red. (Don’s Mill.) 
« G. v. 3 rubéscens Bree, Loud. H.B., ed. 2. p. 588.—Corolla rubescent. 
This must be near the preceding one, and May be identical with it. 
2 G, a : purpurascens Bree, Loud. H. B., ed. 2. p. 588.—Corolla pur- 
plish. 
2 G.v. 5 dlba.—Flowers axillary. Corolla white. (Don’s Mill.) 
= G. v. 6 tenélla.—Flowers terminating the small branches. Corolla 
white. (Don’s Mill.) 



