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ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 



1073. B. Gra^lin 



and in 



larger 



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

 6 in. Introduced?. Flowers red; June. 



<t^ 2. B. Sie'ller/ D. Don. Steller's Bryanthus. 



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



St/noiii/nies. Andromedfl! SteWeridna Pall. Fl. Koss. p. 58. t. 74. f 2. ; 



Men'ziesja empetrifdrrais Pursh Fl. Arner. Sept. 1. p. 265., but not of 



others. 

 Engravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., p. 58. t. 74. f. 2. ; and our^^'. 1074. 



S'pec. Char., ^c. Branchlets 

 glabrous. Leaves with ob- 

 solete crenulated edges. 

 FloM'ers solitary, nearly 

 sessile. Anthers 2-horned 

 behind. Style conical. 

 Flowers pale red. (Don's 

 Mill.) A trailing diminu- 

 tive evergreen shrul). 

 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 ? 



than in B. Gmelini ; June. 



Genus XIII. 



1071. B. StIeri. 



Flowers pale red, 





I 



^r 



DABCE CIA D. Don. The Dabcecia. Lin. Sj/st. Octandria Monogynia. 



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

 Si/nonymes. jErica sp. Lin. ; Andromeda sp. Liji. ; Menziesw sp. Juss. 

 IJcrivation. D. polifblia D. Don is called, iu Ireland, St. Dabcoc's heath. 



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

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

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

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

 dehiscence. (Don's Mill.) 



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

 clothed with white tomentum beneath. Fl&wers terminal, racemose, pur[)le. 

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



tt. 1. D. PoLiFo^LiA D. Don. The Poly-leaved Daboscia. 



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

 Si/noni/mcs. Andr6medn Dabce'c/n Lin. Syst. 406. ; rica Dabce'cia Lin. .Sp. -509. ; Mcnziesia 

 . Daboe'c/rt Dec. Fl. Gall. 074. ; rica hibernica, &c., Raii Hist. 3. Suppl. 2U. ; Menzies/o po- 



lilolia Juss. Ann. Mus. 1. p. 65. ; /'accinium cant&bricura Huds. Fl. Ajtgl. ed. 1. p. 143.; Irish 



M'liorts, Cantabrian Heath, St. Dabeoc's Ileatli. 

 Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 35. ; Sweet's Brit. Fl.-Gard., 2. s. t. 276. ; and our figs. 107iJ. and 1076. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. 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. 



I'aricLy. 



107.5. n. p-^liftlla. 



D. p. 2 florc albo Swt. Brit. Fl. une. u.|.o;ifoi:- 



