2 76 Ericacea Erica. 



slightly-lobed corollas narrowest at the mouth and projecting 

 anthers. Flowers on distinct axillary pedurcles. There are 

 purple, pink, and white flowered varieties. South of Europe. 



2. E. Mediterranea. Another early-blooming species, though 

 not so early by two months as the preceding. An erect shrub 

 about 2 feet high. Leaves linear-acute, revolute. Flowers 

 pink, axillary, on short peduncles. Corolla ovoid, the small 

 lobes spreading. Anthers slightly projecting. E. Hibernica, 

 a plant found in Mayo and Gralway, is referred to this species. 



3. E. vagans. This species is found in some parts of Corn- 

 wall, but nowhere else in Great Britain. An erect shrub from 

 1 to 3 feet high, densely clothed with linear glabrous leaves. 

 Flowers pink, purple or white, on long peduncles, in dense 

 axillary clusters ; corolla campanulate ; anthers partially ex- 

 serted. The only other native species, E. ciliaris, has ciliate 

 glandular leaves 3 or 4 in a whorl, flowers in a one-sided 

 raceme. The corolla is ovoid, and the anthers included and 

 awnless. It occurs in Dorset and Cornwall, and in Galway. 



E. arborea and E. scoparia, together with some other South 

 European forms, are erect-growing shrubby kinds 3 to 6 feet 

 or more high. E. codonoides, syn, E. polytrichifolia, very near 

 and perhaps a variety of E. arborea, is one of the hardiest 

 and freest of this set. It is a slender much-branched shrub 

 with small pale green leaves and numerous many-flowered 

 racemes of small white and pink flowers produced in early 

 Spring. 



3. MENZIESIA (Plujllodoce, Dabebcia). 



Heath-like shrubs. Leaves scattered, small. Flowers in 

 terminal racemes, blue or pink or white. Corolla deciduous, 

 ovoid, 4- or 5-lobed. Stamens 8 or 10. Capsule splitting 

 between the cells. There are or were two species found within 

 the United Kingdom, and several in North America. The genus 

 was named in honour of Menzies, the naturalist of the Van- 

 couver expedition. 



1. M. ccerulea, syn. Phyllodoce taxifolia. A handsome little 

 evergreen shrub having crowded linear glandular-toothed 

 leaves green on both surfaces and lilac-blue flowers. This is 

 sometimes separated on account of the pentamerous arrange- 

 ment of the parts of the flowers. A very rare British plant, 

 found also in other parts of Northern Europe, and in America 

 and Asia. 



