268 L. ERiCAGEiE; ' \_Azdlea. 



6. A'rbiitus Liiin. Strawberry-tree, 



CaL deeply 5-cleft. Cor. ovate, deciduous. Stmn, 10. Fruit 

 fleshy, usually warted, 5-celled ; cells many-seeded. — ISTamed, 

 accordino: to Theis, from ar, 7^otigh or austere^ and bolse^ a 

 biish^ in Celtic. 



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4-cleft octandrous in terminal leafy racemes. Erica Dabeoci - -,,^ 



L. : E. B. t. 35. Dabeocia pollfolia Don. fl t-' 



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Mountainous heaths in Ireland. Croagh Patrick, county Mayo. 

 Abundant in Cunnamara. Sometimes with pure white fl. \. 6—8. 



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4. Azalea Linn. Azalea. 



CaZ. 5-partlte. Cor. sliortly campamilate, regular, deciduous. 

 Stam 5, straiirht, inserted at the base of the cor. Anthers burst- . 

 ing longitudinally. Caps. 2— 3-valved, 2— 3-celled; dissepiment 

 formecf by the inflexed margins of the bifid valves. Seeds at-, 

 tached to a central, at length free, receptacle. — ISTamed from' 

 a'CaXeoc, parched, arid; because in such places the plant grows. 



1. A. proc{cmI>e7is L. (trailing Azalea). E. B. t. 865. Cha- 

 mceledon Link. Loiselcuria Desvaux. 



Dry moory ground, on most of the Scottish Highland mountains, 

 among grass and moss; especially abundant in the north, and no- 

 where perhaps more plentiful than on the Cairngorm range, where, 

 it forms large dark green patches. T7 . 5, 6. — A low sArw6, with, 

 very woody tortuous stems, and crowded leafy branches. Thi.s is the PrJ 



only species, among all those often placed in the genus, to which the J'evis, 



name Azalea is applicable. anJil 



5. Andromeda Zm?z. Andromeda. S -, Ja= 



. Cah deeply 5-cleft. Cor. ovate or campanulate, deciduous. "" 



Stam. 10. Anthe?\s with awns. Caps, superior, 4 — 5-celled, 

 ioculicidal, the dissepiments from the middle of the valves. — Jji^- 



iSTamed in allusion to the fable 0^ Andromeda^ who was chained 

 to a rock, and exposed to the attack of a sea-monster; so does [I U- 



this beautiful tribe of plants grow in dreary and northern jj i^^ 



wastes, feigned to be the abode of prasternatural beings. [ 



1. A. pollfolia L. (JMarsh -4.);" leaves alternate lanceolate 

 .their margins revolute glaucous beneath, flowers in short termi* 

 nal racemes. jE. j5. t. 713. * ■ 



Peat-bogs, Larlingford, Norfolk, The north of England, Lowlands 



of Scotland, and in the Queen's-county and Kerry, Ireland. T^ .' 

 5 — 9, — A small evergreen shrubs with beautiful oval or urceolate, 



rose-coloured, drooping flowers^ a good deal concealed among the' 



terminal leaves. 





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