43. ERICACEAE. Ill 



2. V. Vms-tixffl'A, L. Cowberry, Red- Whortleberry. Stems 

 procumbent, much branched, straggling. Le. obovate, margins 

 slightly re volute, dark green above, pale and dotted beneath. 

 Racemes dense, terminal, drooping. Cor. campanulate, 4-cleft, 

 lobes spreading. Fl. flesh-coloured. Berries red. A low ever- 

 green shrub. 



Xot common. Rocky mountain heaths. (PI) Sh. 6 7. Falls of Clyde; glens 

 in the Campsie hills; hills above Gourock; -Inverkip; Kilmun; Dunoon and 

 Arran. 



3. V. OXYCOCCUS, L, Cranberry, Marsh- Whortleberry. Stems 

 slender, creeping. Le. small, ovate, margins revolute, glaucous 

 beneath. Fl. on terminal single-flowered ped., rose-coloured, 

 drooping. Cor. deeply-cleft, segments rolled back, very elegant. 

 Berries red. 



Frequent. In marshes among Sphagnum. (B) Sh. 67. Heath at Gamkirk 

 railway station; Craigmaddie moor at the tc Auld wives' lifts;" Campsie hills; 

 bog at Barloch, &c. 



43. ERICACEAE. 



1. EEICA. Heath. 



1. E. TETRALIX, L. Cross-leaved Heath. Stems branched at 

 the base, flowering ones ascending. Le. 4 in a whorl, linear, 

 edge rolled back, ciliate. Fl. in capitate-umbels, drooping. Sep. 

 downy. Cor. rose-coloured, sometimes white, found frequently 

 with cleft-segments. 



Common. On moors, with the next species, but not so abundant. (B) Sh. 79. 



2. E. CINEREA, L. Fine-leaved Heath. A bushy shrub, 

 taller than the last. Le. 3 in a whorl, linear, acute, shining, 

 keeled beneath, bearing tufts of small ones in the axils. Fl. in 

 whorled, terminal racemes, drooping, reddish purple, occasionally 

 white. 



Very common. On all heaths. (B) Sh. 6 9. 



2. GALL^NA. Ling, Ling-Heather. 



C. VULGARIS, Salisb. Scotch- Heather. A low much branched 

 tufted shrub. Le. closely imbricated in 4 rows, small, opposite, 

 with 2 small spurs at the base, pubescent, often quite hoary. Fl. 

 very small, on short stalks, drooping, purplish pink, in leafy 

 racemes along the terminal branches. Bracts 4, resembling the 

 cal. True cal. nearly concealing the small 4-cleft corolla. 

 Very common. On all heaths. (B) Sh. 69. 



