TREES AND SHRUBS 



long, oblique at mouth, 4-lobed ; Stamens included, anthers awnless ; Ovary 

 globose, style exserted ; Fruit a 4-valved capsule. 



Leaves 3-4 in a whorl, ovate, sub-sessile, ciliate, recurved, pubescent 

 above, glaucous beneath. 



An evergreen shruh, 12-18 ins.; Stem slender; branchlets many, erect, 

 pubescent. 



Native of S.W. England (Cornwall and Dorset) and parts of Ireland. 

 Called Dorset Heath and Fringed Heath. 



FINE-LEAVED HEATH, Erka dnerea. 



Heaths, commons, gardens. July — September. When planted in masses 

 it makes an attractive shrub in early autumn. 



Floxvers reddish-purple, fading to bluish-lilac, drooping, in a dense 

 elongated or oblong terminal whorled raceme ; pedicels short, puberulous ; 

 bracteoles under calyx ; Cahjd' deeply 4-partite, segments linear-lanceolate ; 

 Corolla ovate-urceolate, slightly 4-lobed, straight at mouth, ^ in. long, per- 

 sistent ; Stamens 8, hypogynous, enclosed in corolla, anthers small, toothed 

 appendages ; Ovanj superior, 4-celled, glabrous, style long, exserted, stigma 

 capitate ; Fruit a 4-celled capsule. 



Leaves crowded in whorls of 3, minute, ^-.^5 ins. long, linear, acute, minutely 

 serrated, margins revolute, cartilaginous, whitish, dark shining green above, 

 glabrous and furrowed beneath. 



An evergreen shrub, 1-2 ft. ; much branched ; Branches slender, red- 

 brown, pubescent ; shoots glabrous. 



Native of Britain. Known also as Scotch Heather, Bell Heath, and Grey 

 Heath. 



MEDITERRANEAN HEATH, Erica mcditerranm. 



Boggy heaths of Mayo and Galway ; cultivated in English gardens. 



March — May. 



Flowers pink, axillary, in dense secund, nodding racemes, pedicels solitary 



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