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always keeping its surface well clothed with the dark green leafy twigs. 

 Plants can be Icept particularly neat, thick, and dwarf, by cutting them over 

 in early April or as soon as the flowers lose colour. This heath is admirable 

 for furnishing the shelves of the rock garden, and for forming broad patches 

 of colour wherever a dwarf evergreen is suitable. By some authors it and 

 E. mediterranea are regarded as forms of the same species. In botanical 

 characteristics the two are similar, but E. carnea is, of course, absolutely 

 distinct in its dwarf or semi-prostrate habit, in its more conspicuously exposed 

 anthers, and in flowering earlier. It is also much hardier. 



E. CILIARIS, Linnceus. 



A straggling shrub, 6 to 12 ins. high, with long prostrate stems from which 

 the flowering branches spring erect in dense masses ; young stems thickly 

 covered with hairs. Leaves in whorls of threes, ovate, about \ in. long, 

 green above, whitish beneath, smooth on both surfaces, but the edges 

 furnished with long gland-tipped hairs ; stalk scarcely perceptible. Flowers 

 arranged in whorls of threes on erect terminal racemes, 2 to 5 ins. long, 

 and opening from late June to October. Corolla rosy red, pitcher-shaped, 

 in. long, suddenly and obliquely contracted towards the mouth, where are 

 four rounded, shallow teeth. Sepals very similar to the smallest leaves, 

 but more densely hairy on the margin ; flower-stalk -$ in. long ; seed-vessel 

 quite smooth. 



Native of S.W. Europe, also of Cornwall, Dorsetshire, and W. of Ireland. 

 Amongst hardy heaths it is only likely to be confused with E. Tetralix, 

 but that species has its leaves in fours, and its flowers are arranged in short 

 terminal umbels not on an elongated axis as in E. ciliaris. The latter 

 is charming for planting in broad masses for late summer and autumnal 

 flowering. 



Var. MAWEANA (E. Maweana, Backhouse], Bot. Mag., t. 8443. A very 

 distinct and superior form of E. ciliaris found in 1872 in Portugal by the late 

 Mr Geo. Maw. It differs from the ordinary ciliaris in its stiffer, sturdier 

 habit, and ..is less inclined to develop long trailing branches. The flower 

 is larger, being in. long, and the foliage stouter and darker green. It flowers 

 from July to November, and is a most attractive plant. 



E. WATSONI, De Candolle.k hybrid between E. ciliaris and E. Tetralix, 

 found first on a heath near Truro by Mr H. C. Watson. The flowers are 

 arranged much after the fashion of E. ciliaris, and they have the obliquely 

 pitcher-shaped form of that species, but the raceme is not so elongated. 

 The leaves are mostly in whorls of four, as in E. Tetralix, and have the narrower 

 form of that species. 



E. CINEREA, Linnceus. SCOTCH or GREY HEATH. 



A low shrub, from 6 ins. to i| ft. high, with rather stiff, much-divided 

 branches ; young shoots downy. Leaves normally three in a whorl, linear, 

 \ to in. long, flat above, convex beneath, pointed, deep green and smooth. 

 Flowers produced from June to September in terminal umbels of four to 

 eight flowers, or in racemes i to 3 ins. long ; corolla egg-shaped, ^ in. long, 

 bright purple, with four teeth at the opening. Calyx-lobes narrow-lanceolate, 

 one-third the length of the corolla, semi-transparent, smooth ; flower-stalk 

 \ to \ in. long, downy. 



Native of W. Europe from Norway to Spain and N. Italy, and very 

 generally distributed over the moors of Britain. It is, perhaps, the most 

 beautiful of the dwarf summer- and autumn-flowering heaths, and produces 

 an enormous profusion of blossom. In cultivated ground in the Thames 



