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mouth of the cor. oblique. — E. B. S. 2618. — St. long, straggling, 

 each terminating in a long raceme of large oblong purple flowers 

 and producing many short barren branches. Style protruded. 

 Ovary glabrous. — Bfeaths. Wareham, Dorset. Carclew, Corn- 

 wall. " Near Clifden, Galway, I." Sh. VII. VIII. E.I. 



** Cor. campanulate or shortly tubular, stam. exserted, filaments 

 flattened, style capitate. Gypsocallis D. Don. 



5. E. mediterranea (L. ?) ; I. 4 in a whorl linear glabrous flat 

 above convex with a central furrow beneath, decurrent line firom 

 the 1. reaching but not extending beyond the next whorl, fl. axil- 

 lary drooping racemose, cor. cylindrical-urceolate twice as long 

 as the coloured calyx, anth. without awns opening throughout 

 nearly their whole length.— JB. B. S. 2774.— St. 2—5 feet high, 

 with many, upright rigid branches terminating in leafy racemes 

 of flesh-coloured flowers but afterwards prolonged. L. many 

 erect-patent. Bracts above the middle of the pedicels. Stam. 

 and style slightly exserted, style afterwards elongated. Ovary 

 glabrous. — Our plant dififers from E. carnea by its 1. having a 

 longitudinal furrow, not a keel on the back, the decurrent ridge 

 from their base not extending beyond the next whorl (in E. 

 carnea it reaches the second); the anthers much shorter and 

 their pores much longer in proportion ; and the cor. of a dififerent 

 shape. — Mountain bogs. West of Mayo and Galway. Sh. IV. 



6. E. vagans (L.) ; 1. A—h in a whorl linear glabrous, fl. axil- 

 lary crowded, cor. short campanulate, sep. small ovate obtuse, 

 anth. ovate of 2 distinct cells gibbous at the base. — E. B. 3. — 

 St. 1 — 2 feet high, copiously branched. Fl. usually collected in 

 large numbers considerably below the top of the branches, cor. 

 red or white. Anth. dark purple. Ovary glabrous. — ^Western 

 parts of Cornwall. Coast of Waterford. Sh. VII. VIII. Cornish 

 Heath. E I. 



6. Phyllodoce Salisb. 



1. P. cecrulea ; 1. linear denticulate, pet. glandular-hairy, 

 calycine segments lanceolate acute, anth. 3 times shorter than 

 the glabrous filaments. — Menziesia Sm., E. B. 2469. — St. 4 — 5 

 in. high, determinately branched, naked below, densely hairy 

 above. Ped. terminal, aggregate, simple. Fl. large, pale, bluish- 

 red.— Sow of Athol, Perthshire. Sh. VI. VII. S. 



7. Dabeocia B. Bon. 



I . D. polifolia (D. Don). — Menziesia Sm., E. B. 35. — St. bushy, 

 1 — 2 feet long, ultimately decumbent. L. ovate or elUptical, flat. 



