TREES AND SHRUBS 



CORNISH HEATH, Erka vagans. 



Heatlis, gardens. This makes a vigorous bush, and thrives in ahiiost 

 any soil. July — September. 



Flowers pink, in a dense terminal axillary leafy raceme, flowers erect; 

 pedicels long, usually twin, slender, bracteolate ; Sepals ovate, ciliate, obtuse; 

 Corolla campanulate, ^ in. long, lobes short ; Anthers exserted, filaments 

 slender, awnless ; Ovary globose, style exserted, stigma capitate; Fruit a 

 capsule. 



Leaves 3-5 in a whorl, hnear, recurved, revolute to midrib, obtuse, 

 glabrous, \ in. long. 



An evergreen shrub, 1-3 ft. ; Stem stout, woody ; Branches stiff', erect, 

 fascicled, densely leafy. 



Indigenous in Cornwall and parts of Ireland. 



CREEPING AZALEA, Loiseleurea procumbcns. 



Scotch mountains ; rock gardens. May — August. Being a natural bog plant, 

 it does best in deep sandy peat. It may be propagated by layering shoots, 

 September — November; or slowly by seed. 



Flozvers rose-pink, proterogynous, in a siib-corijmbose terminal cluster of 

 2-3 flowers ; peduncle red, ebracteolate ; Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, red ; 

 Corolla campanulate. 5-lobed, hypogynous, obtuse, deciduous ; Stamens 5, 

 hypogynous, slightly adnate to corolla ; Ovarij superior, 2-3-celled, sub- 

 globose, style short, stigma capitate ; Fruit a capsule, minute, 2-3-celled, 

 2-3-valved, valves 2-fid ; seeds several, ovoid, pitted. 



Leaves opposite, crowded, petiolate, ovate to linear-oblong, entire, 

 revolute, coriaceous, thick, obtuse, convex and grooved, midrib prominent, 

 glabrous, shining deep green above, and channelled, pubescent beneath. 



An evergreen Alpine sub-shrub, 2-3 ins. ; Stem glabrous, woody ; Branches 



spreading, procumbent, red-brown ; Buds scaly. 



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