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PHYLLODOCE 



less wide ; not recurved at the margins, but minutely toothed there ; dark 

 glossy green. Flowers produced in June and July singly on a slender, 

 glandular stalk up to i^ ins. long, or in an umbel of three or four flowers. 

 Corolla bluish purple, "pitcher-shaped, nodding, five-toothed, ^ in. long. 

 Calyx with five lance-shaped, downy lobes ; stamens ten, and, like the style, 

 included within the corolla. 



Native of high alpine summits and high latitudes in Europe, Asia, and 

 N. America. It is found in Perthshire. Under cultivation it succeeds better 

 in the north of England and in Scotland than in the south, where the 

 summers are too dry and hot for it, and cause its foliage to drop prematurely. 

 It is, consequently, uncommon. In the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh and in 

 nurseries about that city it thrives very well. It should be planted in peat and 



PHYLLODOCE EMPETRIFORMIS. 



sphagnum moss mixed, and have a surfacing of the latter also. One of the 

 most interesting of British plants, and distinct \n this genus because of its 

 colour. 



P. EMPETRIFORMIS, Don. 

 (Bryanthus empetriformis, A. Gray ; Menziesia empetriformis, Smith ; Bot. Mag.,t. 3176.) 



A low evergreen shrub, 6 to 9 ins. high, of tufted habit, densely furnished 

 with leaves. Leaves ^ to in. long, Jg- to T \- in. wide ; linear, rounded at 

 the tip, very shortly stalked, minutely toothed on the margin, dark glossy 

 green. Flowers solitary, on slender, glandular-hairy stalks ^ to f in. long, 

 produced during April from the leaf-axils near the end of the twigs. Corolla 

 pitcher-shaped, bright reddish purple, in. long, scarcely so wide ; with 

 five rounded teeth at the orifice. Calyx-lobes five, ovate, in. long, smooth ; 

 style exposed. 



