DECANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Andiomeda. 251 



Cal. inferior, small, coloured, permanent, in 5 deep, acute 

 segments. Cor. of 1 petal, ovate or bell-shaped ; the limb 

 in 5 small, reflexed segments. Filam. 10, awl-shaped, 

 shorter than the corolla, and scarcely attached to its base. 

 Anth. incumbent, of 2 oval cells, opening by 2 terminal 

 pores, surmounted by a pair of horns. Germ, roundish, 

 with 5 furrows. Style terminal, cylindrical, longer than 

 the stamens, jiermanent. Stigma obtuse, notched. Caps. 

 roundish, with 5 angles, 5 cells, bursting at the angles, 

 and 5 valves with partitions from their centi'e. Seeds nu- 

 merous, roundish, polished. 



Shrubs, with simple, mostly evergreen, leaves, and solitary 

 or aggregate, white or reddish, drooping^oivers. 



1. A. poiifolia. Marsh Andromeda. Wild Rose- 

 mary. 



Clusters terminal. Leaves alternate, lanceolate, revolute ; 

 glaucous beneath. 



A. polifolia. Lirin. Sp. PL 564. Fl. Lapp. ed. 2. 131. t. 1. /. 2. 



IVilld. v.2.61 0. FL Br. 44 1 . EngL BoL v.lO.L7i3. Hook. 



ScoL 125. FL Dan. L 54. PalL Ross, v.], v. 2. 53. t. 71. 

 A. n. 1017. HalL Hist v. \. 434. 

 Polifolia. Buxb. Comm. Petrop. v. 2. {ann. 1 727.) 345. Cent. 5. 28. 



/. 55./. 1. 

 Ledum palustre nostras, arbuti flore. Raii Syn. 472. 

 Viti Idaeae affinis, polifolia montana. Bauh. Hist. v. I. p. 1. 525./. 

 Erica palustris, flore purpurascente pendulo, petiolo longo rubro, 



rorismarini folio. Rudb. Act. Suec. ann. 1720. 97. 

 E. humiliSj rorismarini foliis, unedonis flore^ capsula cistoide. Pluk. 



Almag. 136. Phyt. t. 175. f. 1. 



On mossy peat bogs, in the mountainous parts of England and 

 Ireland, and the low- lands of Scotland. 



Shrub. June. 



A most elegant, smooth, evergreen shrub, scarcely a span high, 

 with alternate, rigid, round, leafy branches. Leaves irregularly 

 scattered, on short stallvs, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, various in 

 breadth, strongly revolute ; of a dark blueish green above j 

 very glaucous, with a prominent rib, beneath, i^tipulas none. 

 Clusters somewhat umbellate, with white or reddish, bracteated 

 stalks. FL pendulous, nearly globular, of a delicate blush-co- 

 lour. Caps, erect. 



A very interesting account of this charming plant is given in Lin 

 naeu'i's Lapland Tour, v, 1. 188, See also Hooker, Scot. 126. 



