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dull deep-green, glabrous, except the young part of the stem, 

 branches, and pedicels. 



Fine-leaved Heath, Grey Heath. 



French, Bruyere Cendrce. German, Graue Glockenheide. 



SPECIES IV. — ERICA VAGANS. Linn. 



Plate DCCCXCII. 



Reich. Ic. PL Germ, et Helv. Vol. XVII. Tab. MCLXIX Fig. 2. 

 Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 53. 



Stem stout, much branched, with elongate stiff erect branches, 

 glabrous. Leaves irregularly whorled, 4 in a whorl, very shortly 

 stalked, linear, nearly entire, without revolute margins, flat above, 

 slightly convex and with a broad furrow beneath, glabrous above 

 and below except in the furrow, not ciliated, without fascicles of 

 leaves in the axils. Flowers erect, longly stalked, axillary, in 

 dense racemes at or a little way below the extremity of the 

 branches. Pedicels glabrous, elongate, 2 or 3 together, with 

 lanceolate scarious bracts at the base, and about 3 bracteoles 

 below the middle. Calyx-segments scarious, ovate, finely ciliated. 

 Corolla twice or thrice as long as the calyx, at first cup-shaped, 

 afterwards nearly globular, with 4 ovate-deltoid teeth about one- 

 third of the whole corolla. Anthers much exserted, without 

 appendages ; the cells separate throughout their whole length. 



On heaths in Cornwall, chiefly about the Lizard ; reported also 

 from Devon, which is not improbable, and Worcester, Glamorgan, 

 Notts, and Derby (these last localities are probably erroneous) ; 

 also from Argyllshire in Scotland, where, if the species really occurred, 

 it must have been planted ; on an islet near the coast of Waterford, 

 near Tramore, Ireland. 



England, Ireland. Shrub. Late Summer and Autumn. 



Plant forming compact bushes. Stem stout, erect, 1 to 3 feet 

 high, much thicker than in any of the preceding species, branched, 

 with very numerous linear slightly recurved bright-green leaves. 

 Leaves % to J inch long, spreading, 8-farious, usually 4, rarely 5 in 

 each whorl, with the margins sometimes finely and remotely serrate, 

 the central farrow beneath broader than the midrib and with a few 

 white scales. Peduncles so long that the flowers usually project 

 beyond the leaves. Corolla £ inch long, pink or rose-colour, differ- 

 ing from all the preceding species in being widely open at the mouth 

 until after flowering, when the segments become connivent. Anthers 



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