280 ERICACEAE. 
DABOECIA. St. Dabeoc’s Heath. 
(Family Ericaceae). 
Compact small heath-like 
shrubs: evergreen. Twigs slender, 
round, the bark soon shredding: 
pith minute, roundish, continuous. 
Buds solitary, subglobose, with 
about 2 scales, commonly develop- 
ing a pair of narrow leaves 
promptly. Leaf-scars alternate, 
minute, low, crescent-shaped: 
bundle-trace 1; stipule-scars lack- 
ing. The fruit, if present, is of 
relatively large rather conical 
glandular-bristly capsules with 
very acute valves. Leaves simple 
and entire, small, elliptical or 
somewhat ovate, slightly revolute, 
densely white- or rusty-tomentu- 
lose beneath. 
St. Dabeoc’s heath, as the com- 
mon name indicates, occurs in Ire- 
land and has been supposed to be 
peculiar to the Emerald Isle; but it is found occasionally as 
far south as the Mediterranean, and on the oceanic Azores. 
Twigs transiently puberulent and sparsely hairy. D. polifolia. 
