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fading but persistent, clusters tenamnl.—Arbutm L. K B. 

 2030. St. 6. 8. — St. woody, trailing, long. L. obovate, netted. 

 Fl. white, bairy about the mouth. Berry smooth, black. — Dry 

 barren spots on the Highland mountains. Sh. V. S. 



2. A. Uva-ur'si (Spr.) ; procumbent, I. coriaceous obovate en- 

 tire shining evergreen, clusters terminal. — Arbutm L. E. B. 

 714. St. 6. 8. — 1st. woody, trailing, long. L. bJunt, quite en- 

 tire, rigid. Fl. rose-coloured, smooth. Berry globose, scarlet, 

 superior. — Dry stony mountain heaths. Sh. VI. E. S. I. 



Tribe II. Ericea. 

 3. Anbeom'eda Linn. 



1. A. polifdlia (L.) ; 1. alternate lanceolate with revolute 

 margins glaucous beneath, fl. clustered terminal. — E. B. 713. — 

 St. slender, woody, prostrate below. Ped. variable in length. 

 Fl. drooping ovate, pink, occasionally 4-fid and 8-androus. L. 

 evergreen, acute. Peduncles 2 or 3 times as long as the flowers. 

 —Peat bogs. Sh. V.— IX. E. S. I. 



4. Callu'wa Salisb. Ling. 



1. C. vulgdris (Salisb.).— -B. B. 1013.— A low tufted shrub. 

 L. small, sessile, closely imbricate, patent, in 4 rows, keeled, 

 each with 2 small spurs at the base, nearly or quite smooth. 

 Fl. small, shortly stalked, drooping, lilac-rose-coloured or white, 

 with the lower ped. leafy; sep. and pet. oblong erect; fl.- 

 raceme ending in a leafy shoot. L. sometimes hoary. — The 

 supposed C. atlantica is not constant to the characters recorded, 

 even on the same bush. — Dry heaths. Sh. VI. — VIU. E. S. I. 



5. Ebi'ca Linn. Heath. 



* Cor. globose or urceolate, stam. included, Jilaments filiform 

 flattened, stigma peltate. EeicaD. Don. 



1. E. Tet'ralix (L.) ; Z. 4 in a whorl lanceolate or linear ciliate 

 downy above and on the midrib beneath with revolute edges, fl, 

 in an umbellate head, sep. linear doitmy ciliate, anth. spurred, 

 ovary downy. — E. B. 1014. — St. branched below and often 

 especially about the middle, simple in the upper part, densely 

 leafy below, the whorls more distant towards the top and usually 

 leavino' a leafless space next to the flowers. Tips of young 

 shoots green. Young 1. always downy above, old 1. sometimes 

 glabrous. Sep. downy and mealy. Fl. rose-coloured. Style 



