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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 111. 



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 caerulea Wall., Phyllodoct- /axifolia Sal., and 

 more highly coloured ; while the leaves are elegantly 

 fringed with hairs, and each hair is tipped witii a 

 gland." {Brit. Flur., p. 177.) The usual height is 

 about a foot. A hybrid between this species and 

 E. Z'etralix is noticed in p. 1079. 



• 9. E. si'cuL.v Schonbcrg. The Sicilian Heath. 



Iilentiflcation. Schonbcrg in Linnxa, 2. p. 614. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 799. 



Spec. Char., SjC. A shrub, 2 ft. to 3 ft. high. Leaves 4 in a whorl, linear, nearly cylindrical, cancs- 

 ccnt. Flowers erect, cancscent, on long pedicels, in terminal umbel-like groups. Uracteas and 

 segments of calyx membranous, coloured, about as long as the corolla, ('orolla ovate, oblong, 

 downy, red. {Don's Mill., iii. p. 799.) A native of Sicily. Introduced in 1819 ; but we have not seen 

 the plant. 



Genus II. 



flk:>.2j jKf^>«l3 



GYPSOCA'LLIS Sal. The Gvi>socallis, or Moor Heath. Lin. Si/sl. 

 Octandria Monogynia. 



Idt-ntification. Salisbury's MSS. ; D. Don in Kdiiib. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 153. ; Don's Mill., 3. 



p. 800. 

 Si/noni/me. A'rlca; sp. of other authors. 

 Dcriuatiun. " From f^upsas, lime, and kal/is/os, most beautiful ; the plants [kinds] arc very elegant, 



and generally inhabit calcareous districts." {Uon's Mill.) 



Description, Sfc. The species are mostly undershrubs, not exceeding J ft. 

 in height; but G. mediterranea {E. mediterranea L.) grows to the heigiit of 

 10 ft. or 12 ft., or upwards, 



«. 1. G. VA^GANS Sal. The wandering Gypsocallis, or Cornish Moor HeaO'^. 



Identification. Sal. MSS. ; D. Don in Edin. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 1.03. ; Don's Mill., .J. p. 800. 



Synonymcs. K. vikgans Lin. Mant., 2. p. 2J0., Lin. Si/st., :flO., £ng. Bot., t. :i. ; E. vilga Sal. in 

 Lin. Soc. Trans., (>. p. 344. ; E. multiflura Iluds. Ft. Anglica, 16ti., Bull. Fl. Par., t. 203. ; E. dl- 

 dyma Stokes in li'itherini^'s But. Arrangement, 400. ; aT purpurisccns Lam. Diet., 1. p. 488. 



Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 3. ; Bull. Fl. Par., t. 203. ; and ouryf^'. 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 

 near one another. Bracteas remote from the calyx. Corolla short, 

 bell-shaped, pale purplish red. {DoiCs Mill., iii. p. 800.) A native 

 of England, in Cornwall ; and of the south of France and north 

 of Africa. 



Varieties. 



n. G. V. 2 pallida. — Corolla pale red. {Don's Mill.) 



n. G. V.3 rubi'sccns Bree, Loud. H.B., ed. 2. p. 588. — Corolla rubescent. 

 This must be near the |)receding one, and may be identical with it. 



a. G. V. 4 purpurdscens Bree, Loud. H. B,, ed. 2. p. 388. — Corolla pur- 

 plish. 



*L G.v. 5 alba. — Flowers axillary. Corolla white. {Don's Mill.) 



«- G. V. 6 tenclla. — Flowers terminating the small branches. Corolla 

 white. {Dons Mill.) 



