572 



ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



and in 

 larger 



places, in mosses and bogs, with jE'mpetrum. Height 

 6 in. Introduced?. Flowers red; June. 



<u 2. B. STE'LLER/ D. Don. Steller's Bryanthus. 



Identification. D. Don, L c. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 833. 



Synonymes. Andromeda Stelleriana Pall. Fl. Ross. p. 58. t. 74. f. 2. ; 



Menzidsi'a empetrif6rmis Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 1. p. 265., but not of 



others. 

 Engravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., p. 58. t. 74. f. 2. ; and our fig. 1074. 



Spec. Char. y fyc. Branchlets 

 glabrous. Leaves with ob- 

 solete crenulated edges. 

 Flowers solitary, nearly 

 sessile. Anthers 2-horned 

 behind. Style conical. 

 Flowers pale red. (Don's 

 Mill.) A trailing diminu- 

 tive evergreen shrub. 

 North-west coast of Ame- 

 rica, on the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, and near the mouth 

 of the Columbia River, 



the Island of Sitcha. Height 6 in. Introduced ?. Flowers pale red, 



than in B. Gmelim ; June. 



GENUS XIII. 



1074. B. St<5.1leri. 



DABCE CIA D. Don. THE DABCECIA. Lin. Sysl. Octandria Monogynia. 



Identification. D. Don in Edinb. New. Phil. Journ., 17. p. 160. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 833. 

 Synonymes. Erica sp. Lin. ; Andromeda sp. Lin. ; MenzieVa sp. Juss. 

 Derivation. D. jt?olif61ia D. Don is called, in Ireland, St. Dabeoc's heath. 



Gen. Char. Calyx 4-parted. Corolla oval, ventricose ; limb 4-toothed. Sta- 

 mens 8, enclosed ; filaments dilated, glabrous. Anthers linear, sagittate 

 at the base ; cells of anthers parallel, loosened at the apex, dehiscing 

 lengthwise. Stigma simple, truncate. Capsule 4-celled, with a septicidal 

 dehiscence. (Don's Mill.) 



Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen ; acerose, elliptic, flat, 

 clothed with white tomentum beneath. Flowers terminal, racemose, purple. 

 A shrub, evergreen, diminutive, bushy ; native of Ireland and the Pyrenees. 



tt. 1. D. POLIFO N LIA D. Don. The Poly-leaved Daboecia. 



Identification. D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 160. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 833. 



Synonymes. Andrfimeda Dabce'czYz Lin. Syst. 406. ; Erica Dabce'cz'a Lin. Sp. 509. ; Menziesza 

 Dabce'c/a Dec. Fl. Gall. 674.; .Erica hibernica, &c., Raii Hist. 3. Suppl. 244. ; Menziesz'a po- 

 lifolia Juss. Ann. Mus. 1. p. 55. ; Facci'nium cant&bricum Huds. Fl. Angl. ed. 1. p. 143.; Irish 

 Whorts, Cantabrian Heath, St. Dabeoc's Heath. 



Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 35. ; Sweet's Brit. Fl.-Gard., 2. s. t. 276. ; and our Jigs. 1075. and 1076. 



Spec. Char., Sf-c. Leaves elliptic, flat, 

 clothed with white tomentum beneath. 

 Flowers in terminal racemes. (Don's 

 Mill.) A bushy, heath-like, evergreen 

 undershrub. Ireland and the Pyre- 

 nees, on the sides of mountains and 

 dry heaths, where it is very ornamental. 

 Height 1 ft. to 2 ft. Flowers purple ; 

 June to September. 



Variety. 

 1075. D.poiif6iia. j* D. p. 2 flore albo Swt. Brit. Fl. 



