232 ERICACE<&. [ARCTOSTAPHYI.OS. 



2. A. Uva-Ur'si, Spreng. ; branches trailing, leaves evergreen obovate 



or spathulate quite entire very coriaceous, drupe red. 



Heathy rocky places from York and Cumberland northwards ; ascending to 

 near 3,000ft. in the Highlands; N.W. of Ireland; fl. May-June. Forms 

 depressed trailing masses ; branches 1-2 ft., stout, woody, young puberulous ; 

 bark dark, scaling. Leaves -1 in., petiole and margin finely woolly, deep 

 green, nerves reticulate on both surfaces. Racemes crowded, very short, 

 few-flowered ; scales and bracteoles persistent, ciliate ; pedicels very short. 

 Sepals short, broad. Vorolla $ in., pink, urceolate ; teeth 4-5, hairy within. 

 Antlws with long awns. Berry in. diam. DISTRIB. Arctic and Alpine 

 Europe, excl. Greece and Turkey, Siberia, E. and W. N. America. 



5. ANDROM EDA, /.. 



A small shrub ; buds clothed with scales. Leaves alternate, glaucous 

 beneath, margins revolute. Flowers in subterminal umbels, white or 

 pink. Sepals 4. Corolla hypogynous, globose ; limb 5-lid, reflexed. 

 Stamens 10, hypogynous, included, filaments bearded ; anthers obtuse, 

 with 2 dorsal awns. Ovary 5-celled ; style simple, stigma obtuse or dilated ; 

 placentas maiiy-ovuled, pendulous. Capsule subglobose, loculicidally 

 5-valved. Seeds attached to a central column, small, testa hard, smooth, 

 raphe much thickened. DISTKIB. Arctic and Alpine Europe, excl. Greece 

 and Turkey, Siberia, N . America. ETYM. Mythical. 



1. A. polifo'lia, L. ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate glabrous shining. 



Peat bogs from Perthshire southwards to Norfolk and Somerset ; local in 



Ireland ; fl. May- Aug. Stems long, ascending, rooting at the base ; branches 



6-12 in., suberect, twiggy ; bark smooth, brown. Leaves shortly petioled, 



acute, thickly coriaceous, margins strongly recurved. 



short, floxert drooping ; pedicels ^-1 in., slender, red. Sepals small, obtuse. 

 Cm-ill la in., purplish ; lobes 5, revolute. Filaments bearded ; anthers short. 

 Capsule erect, 5-lobed. Seed* turned in all directions, ovoid. DISTIUB. N. 

 Arctic and Alpine Europe, excl. Greece and Turkey, E. and W. N. America. 



6. ERI CA, L. HEATH. 



Rigid, much-branched shrubs. Leaves whorled, rarely alternate or 

 scattered, narrow, rigid. Flowers usually nodding ; pedicels 2-3-bracteate. 

 Sepals 4. Corolla hypogynous, ovoid globose campauulate or tubular, 

 4-lobed, persistent. Stamens 8, inserted on the glandular disk; antliei- 

 cells awned, opening by pores or slits. Ovary 4-celled; style filiform, 

 .stigma capitate dilated 4-lobed; ovules many. Capsule 4-celled, loculi- 

 cid.illy 4-valved, many-seeded. Seeds attached to a central axis, ovoid 

 or compressed, testa smooth or reticulate. DISTKIB. Europe, N. Asia, 

 N. Africa, abundant in S. Africa ; species about 400. ETYM. Classical. 



1. E. Tet'ralix, L. ; pubescent and sometimes glandular, leaves 4 in a 

 whorl, llowi-rs siibtimbellate, corolla regular ovoid, anthers included with 

 subulate awns. Cross-leaved Heath. 

 Heaths, abundant ; ascending to near 2,400ft. in the Highlands ; fl. July-Sept. 



Pubescence sometimes almost woolly ; glandular hairs stiff or slender or 0. 



Stems 12-18 in., wiry ; branches slender. Leaves ~i in., in close or distant 



