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20. E. entpetrifolia, Crow Berry-leaved Heath; 21. . capitata, Woolly 

 Heath; 22. E. titbiflora^ Tube-flowered/ Heath ; 23. E. conspicua, 

 Long-tubed Yellow Heath ; 24. E. cerinthiodes, Honey wort-flowered 

 Heath; 25. E. comosa, Tufted-flowered Heath; 26. E. massoni, Tall 

 Downy Heath; 27. E. Plukenetii, Smooth-twigged Pencil-flowered 

 Heath; 28. E. Petiveri, Downy-twigged Pencil-flowered Heath; 29. 

 E. herbacea, Early-flowered Dwarf Heath; 30. E. grandiflora, Great- 

 flowered Heath. 



There are many other species equally deserving of cultivation. 



The first has shrubby stems, from nine to twelve inches high, 

 branched, brown, somewhat rugged from the remains of the leaves 

 which have fallen off: branches a little woolly: the leaves are com- 

 monly in fours, but sometimes in fives, ovate-linear, spreading, near 

 the flowers pressed close to the stem, the edges turned in and ciliated, 

 each hair terminating in a small round gland ; the upper surface is 

 flat, the lower concave and white: flowers hanging down one over 

 another all one way. It is a native of the northern parts of Europe, 

 flowering in July and August; but according to Linnaeus, twice in 

 the year. 



It is not inferior to many of the foreign heaths in the beauty and 

 delicacy of its flowers. This is distinguished from the other British 

 heaths, not only by the flowers growing in a kind of pendulous clus- 

 ter on the tops of the stalks, but by the leaves growing in fours, and 

 forming a sort of cross. 



The second species has a perennial woody root: the stems 

 shrubby, about a foot high, with opposite branches: the bark ash- 

 coloured: the leaves are linear, fleshy, spreading; above smooth and 

 shining, transversely wrinkled; towards the end beset with a few 

 scattered hair-like points ; beneath having a longitudinal furrow, 

 which is white from a woollintss apparent to the magnifier; the edge 

 somewhat membranaceous, and when viewed with the microscope 

 appearing serrulate: the leaves, when young, have three flat sides, 

 but when full grown are nearly flat : the flowers are in long clustered 

 whorls terminating in spikes, of a deep purple colour, sonorous when 

 struck; they come out from the sides of the young shoots ; those 



