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ERICACEAE. 



KRicA T^TRALIX (Cross-leaved Heath). 



pie flowers, which form broken, leafy clusters, not con- 

 fined to one side of the stem. The flowers are sometimes 

 white. Fl. July, August. Shrub. 



3. E. vagans (Cornish Heath). Leaves 3 5 in a 

 whorl, crowded, very narrow, smooth ; flowers bell- 

 shaped, shorter than the stamens, forming a leafy, regu- 

 lar, tapering cluster. Heaths on the southern promon- 

 tory of Cornwall, very abundant ; found also in one or 

 two other places in Cornwall, and on the coast of 

 Waterford. Stems much branched, and, in the upper 

 parts, very leafy, 2 4 feet high : flowers light purple, 



