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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 





long, pale red. Style prominent. (Don's Mill., iii. 

 p. 799.) A native of Portugal, and of England, in 

 Cornwall. This comparatively rare species, Sir 

 W. J. Hooker observes, is always found in boggy 

 places, and never on dry ground. " It is unquestion- 

 ably the most interesting and beautiful addition 

 that has been made to our British flora for many 

 years. The flowers are as large as those of Men- 

 ziesza caerulea Wall. t Phyllodoce laxifolia Sal. y and 

 more highly coloured; while the leaves are elegantly 

 fringed with hairs, and each hair is tipped with a 

 gland." (Brit. Flor., p. 177.) The usual height is 

 about a foot. A hybrid between this species and 

 E. T'etralix is noticed in p. 1079. 



* 9. E. SI'CULA Schonberg. The Sicilian Heath. 



Identification. Schonberg in Linnzea, 2. p. 614. ; Don's Mill, 3. p. 799. 



Spec. Char., 8(C. A shrub, 2 ft. to 3 ft. high. Leaves 4 in a whorl, linear, nearly cylindrical, canes- 

 cent. Flowers erect, canescent, on long pedicels, in terminal umbel-like groups. Bracteas ami 

 segments of calyx membranous, coloured, about as long as the corolla. Corolla ovate, oblong, 

 downy, red. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 799.) A native of Sicily. Introduced in 1819 : but we have not seen 

 the plant. 



GENUS II. 



GYPSOCA'LLIS Sal. THE GYPSOCALLIS, or MOOR HEATH. Lin. Syst. 

 Octandria Monogynia. 



Identification. Salisbury's MSS. ; D. Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 153. ; Don's Mill., 3 



p. 800. 



Synonyme. .Ericas sp. of other authors. 

 Derivation. " From gupsos, lime, and kalltstos, most beautiful ; the plants [kinds] are very elegant, 



and generally inhabit calcareous districts." (Don's Mill.) 



Description, $c. The species are mostly undershrubs, not exceeding 1 ft. 

 in height ; but G. mediterranea ( E. mediterranea L.) grows to the height of 

 10ft. or 12 ft., or upwards. 



n. 1. G. VA V GANS Sal. The wandering Gypsocallis, or Cornish Moor Heath. 



Identification. Sal. MSS. ; D. Don in Edin. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 153. ; Don's Mill., 3. p. 800. 



Synonymcs. E. vagans Lin. Mant., 2. p. 230., Lm. Syst., 370., Eng. Bot., t. 3. ; E 

 Lin. Soc. Trans., 6. p. 344. ; E. multiflura Huds. Fl. Anglica, 16t>., Bull. Ft. Par., 

 dyma Stokes in Withering' s Bot. Arrangement, 400. ; E. purpurascens Lam. Diet., 1. p. 488. 



Sal. in 

 E. dl- 



Engravings. Eng. Bot., t. 3. ; Bull. Fl. Par., t. 203. ; and our fig. 870. 



Spec. Char., fyc. Stem glabrous. Leaves 4 5 in a whorl, conti- 

 guous, glabrous. Flowers small, upon footstalks, axillary, mostly 

 2 in an axil, and those of any branch seeming as if disposed in a 

 raceme, from the flowers being stalked and produced from axils 

 near one another. Bracteas remote from the calyx. Corolla short, 

 bell-shaped, pale purplish red. (Don's Mill., iii. p. 800.) A native 

 of England, in Cornwall ; and of the south of France and north 

 of Africa, 



Varieties. 



n. G. v. 2 pallida. Corolla pale red. (Don's Mill.) 



B_ G. v. 3 rubescens Bree, Loud. H.B., ed. 2. p. 588. Corolla rubescent. 



This must be near the preceding one, and may be identical with it. 

 a. G. v. 4 purpurdscens Bree, Loud. H. B., ed. 2. p. 588. Corolla pur- 



plish. 



- G. v. 5 alba. Flowers axillary. Corolla white. (Don's Mill.) 

 *-G.v.6 tenella.FloMvvrs terminating the small branches. Corolla 



white. (Don's Mill.) 



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