34 ENGLISH BOTANY. 



at the base. Plant wholly pubescent, with gland-tipped hairs, 

 except the under sides of the leaves. 



On boggy heaths in the West of Ireland ; abundant in Conne- 

 tnara, on Croagh Patrick, co. Mayo. 



Ireland. Shrub. Summer. 



Rootstock creeping. Stem woody, with brown bark splitting off 

 in flakes, decumbent at the base, then erect, 9 inches to 2 feet high, 

 branched, with the branches mostly simple, erect, and, as well as 

 the rachis and pedicels, finely pubescent, and clothed with long 

 gland-tipped hairs. Leaves very numerous, £ to -g inch long, when 

 young very narrow, from the margins being much rolled back, but 

 becoming apparently broader when old by the margins unfolding ; 

 axils of the leaves generally with fascicles of smaller leaves. Flowers 

 3 to 10, drooping, sub-secund, in an elongated raceme. Calyx- 

 segments lanceolate, triangular, pubescent, and with long gland- 

 tipped hairs. Corolla crimson-purple, ^ to f inch long, broadly ovate- 

 ovoid, sub-urceolate, with 4 short obtuse slightly-reflexed lobes 

 clothed with a few gland-tipped hairs. Anthers included, dark- 

 purple, very long. Capsule erect, ovoid-conical, clothed with long 

 gland-tipped hairs. 



St. Dabeois Heath. 



French, Menziese Dabioie. 



Sub-Gentjs II.— PHYLLODOCE. Salisb. 



Calyx deeply 5-cleft. Corolla-limb 5-toothed. Stamens 10 ; 

 filaments slender, longer than the anthers ; anthers rather short, 

 rounded at the base ; cells truncate at the apex. Stigma peltate, 

 with 5 tubercles. Capsule 5-cclled, 5-valved. 



SPECIES II— M ENZIESIA C.2ERULEA. Swartz. 



Plate DCCCLXXXVI. 



Beich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLX. Fig. 3. 



Phyllodoce cserulea, Bab. Man. Brit. But. ed. v. p. 216. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. 



Vol. II. p. 434. 

 Phyllodoce taxifolia, Salisb. D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 713, 

 Andromeda cserulea, Linn. Sp. PL p. 563. 

 Erica canulea, Willdcnoio, Sp. PI. Vol. II. p. 393. 



Leaves evergreen, strap-shaped, obtuse, with the margins very 

 finely serrulate, not rcvolute, green on both sides, glabrous above 

 and below, except the midrib, which is pubescent. Flowers 



