230 DICOTYLEDONS. ERiCEjE. Andromeda. 



by a disk, or secreting glands, many-celled; ovules numerous. 

 Style}. Stigma simple or toothed. Capsule many-celled, 

 many-seeded, sometimes a berry; dissepiments attached to the 

 edge or middle of the valves, or distinct from them. Seeds 

 minute, attached by one extremity to central receptacles. Em- 

 bryo cylindrical in the axis of a fleshy albumen. 



Shrubs. Leaves entire, without stipules, alternate or whorlcd, 



or opposite. Pedicels with 2 or many bracteas. Br. Mirb. 



]. ERICA. 



Cal. 4-partite. Cor. of 1 petal; limb 4-fid. Stam. 8. An- 

 thers before flowering connected by two lateral pores. Caps. 

 4 -celled, 4-valved ; dissepiments from the middle of the valves. 



1. E. cinerea, anthers with two serrated appendages at the base, 

 style a little exserted, stigma capitate, leaves ternate. p. 119. 

 Heaths. 



2. E. Tetralix, anthers with two awns at the base, style as long 

 as the ovate cor., leaves in fours ciliated, flowers capitate. 

 p. 119. Moorish grounds. 



2. CALLUNA. 

 Cal. double, 4-partite, inner one coloured. Caps, with ihedis- 



sepiments opposite the margins of the valves, and separating 



from them. The rest as in Erica. 

 1. C. vulgaris. p. 119. Heaths and moors. 



3. MENZIESIA. 



Cal. deeply 5-cleft. Cor. ovate, 4 5-cleft. Stam. S 10. An- 

 thers awnless. Caps. 4 5- celled, the partitions formed by 

 the inflexed margins of the valises. 



1. M. Cfsrulea, leaves scattered numerous linear toothed, flower- 

 stalks terminal aggregate simple, flowers 5-cleft decandrous. 

 p. 126. Mountains. 



4. AZALEA. 



Cor. campanulate, 5-cleft, unequal. Stam. 5, inserted upon 

 the- receptacle. 



] . A. procumbens*, stems spreading procumbent, leaves opposite 

 elliptical glabrous, their margins revolute. p. 73. Dry heathy 

 ground. 



5. ANDROMEDA. 



Cal. deeply 5-cleft. Cor. ovate. Slam. 10. Anth. with two 



a This plant has, with much propriety, been separated from the true Aza- 

 lea by M. Desvaux in the Journal de Botaniquc, and under the name of 

 Loiseleuria the following' character has been attributed to it : " Cal. 5-par- 

 tite, its segments equal. Cor. subcampanulate, 5-fid, unequal. Stam. 5, in- 

 serted at the base of the cor., straight, included. Anth. opening longitudi- 

 nally. Style erect, included. Caps. 2-celled, opening at the extremity. 

 Flowers terminal, cymose, with a broad bractea" 



