Menziesia.'] 



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2. Calluna. Salisb. 



Ling. 



Cal. of 4 coloured leaves, concealing the cor.^ accompanied 

 by 4 hradeas^ resembling an outer calyx. Cor, canipanulate, 

 marcescent. Stam. 8. Caps, 4-celled, 4-valved, septicidal and 

 septifragal (valves opening at the dissepiments which separate 

 from them and adhere to the axis of the fruit). — Named from 

 KaWvvio^ to cleanse or adorn^ and hence peculiarly applicable, 

 as Sir J. E. Smith observes, t<!> this plant, whether we consider 

 the beauty of its flowers, or the circumstance of brooms being 

 made of its twigs. 



1. C. vulgaris Salisb, (common L,). Erica L.: E. B. t. 1013. 



Heaths and moors, common ; sometimes with white fl. \i . 6 — 8. 



A low, much-branching, tufted shriih, /^eares small, opposite, with 

 two small decurrent spurs at the base, more or less pubescent, and 

 even hairy in j3. of Sm, (the E. cillaris Huds, not Linn.), closely 

 imbricated in 4 rows. Flowers small^ reddish, droonin^, nearly sessile, 

 ovate. A plant much employed for brooms and for fuel. It makes 

 excellent edging to garden-plots, and bears clipping as well as Box, 



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3, Menziesia Sm. Menziesia,^ 



Cal. cleft to the base into 4 — 5 deep segments, or 4-lobed. 

 Cor, ventricose, deciduous. Stam, 8 — 10. Capsule 4 — 5-celled, 

 septicidal (the dissepiments formed by the inflexed margins of 

 the entire valves, and opening between these dissepiments). 

 Name : "Nomen dedi," says the learned founder of this genus, 

 '*inhonorem Archihaldi Menzies Scotici, peregrinatoris et bo- 

 tanici indefessi, priscas fidei.ac urbanitatis viri,*" 



1. M. cmrulea Sm. (Scottish ilf.) ; leaves scattered numerous 

 linear toothed, flower-stalks terminal aggregate simple, flowers 

 5-cleft decandrous, E. B. t. 2469. Phyllodoce taxifolia SaL 



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Heathy moor on the *' Sow of Athol," at Dalnaspidal, Perthshire. 

 \' 6, 7. — A small shrub ; stems branched, woody and naked below. 



Flowers large, beautiful, 



Peduncles 2 inches long, glandular, reddish. 



purple-blue. Cor, urceolate, — This plant is far more common in 



North America than in Scotland. 



following species. 



It scarcelj^ yields ia beauty to the 



2. ^Lpolifolia Juss. (Irish 71/"., or St. Daheocs Heath) ; leaves 

 ovate the margins revolute white and downy beneath, flowers 



* \Ti^^^t?^""^ ^^ by some divided into three: — !. Phyllodoce Sal. Cal. deeply 

 o-ciett. Filaments longer than the anthers. Stigma peltate, with 5 tubercles, 

 si f o^^o^g compressed. — 2. Dnbeocia Don. Cal. deeply 4.cleft. Filaments 

 MiortPr than the anthers. Stigma truncate. Seeds ovate.-3. Menxtesta Sm. Calyx 

 Th f l^ilanients longer than the anthers. Stigma ^i^btuea. Seeds scobiform. 

 i ne two first are evergreen : the last has deciduous leaves, and is a native only of 



chTnliifii 1"^^""^^^*^® oriuuial species of the genus, but Smith afterwards 

 caanged the character so as to exclude it, and include the European ones. 



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