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usually included. — ^. Watsoni ; cor. ventricose, fl. more or less 

 racemose. 8y. E. B. 888. It uiay be a hybrid. — Boggy heaths. 

 /3. Truro, OornwaU. Sh. VII. Vl'll. E. S. I. 



2. E. Maehaidna (Bab.) ; ^. 4 in a whorl ovate ciliate the 

 midrib beneath and tipper surf ace glabrous with revolute edges, fl. 

 in an umbellate head, sep. ovate lanceolate glabrous, anth. spurred, 

 ovai-y glabrous. — E. B.8. 2900. — St. irregularly brancbedthrough- 

 out, particularly above, densely and equally leafy quite up to the 

 flowers. Tips of young shoots pink. L. and sepals quite without 

 down ; 1. mealy beneath but the midrib bare ; sep. with a smaU 

 portion of meal near the apex beneath, otherwise quite bare. 

 Fl. purplish. Style protruded. — I have seen forms of this taken 

 for E. ciliaris. — Very wet moors between Roundstone and Clif- 

 den, and between Oarna and Lough Sheedah, Co. Galway. Sh. 

 VIII. IX. Mackay's Heath. 1, 



3. E. cin6rea (L.) ; I. 3 in a whorl linear-lanceolate acute 

 keeled beneath with a central furrotv glabrous, Jl. in dense whorled 

 racemes, sep. linear-lanceolate smooth acute keeled, anth. spurred, 

 ovary glabrous. — E. B. 1015. — St. with many upright branches. 

 L. flat above, minutely serrulate. Fl. reddish purple. — Dry 

 heaths. Sh. VII. VIII. Fine-leaved Heath. E. S. I. 



4. E. cilidris (L.) ; Z. 4 in a whorl ovate ciliate with revolute 

 edges,_^. in terminal unilateral racemes, anth. not spurred, mouth 

 of the cor. oblique. — E. B. 8. 2618. — St. long, straggling, ending 

 in a long raceme of large oblong purple flowers and producing 

 many short barrenbranches. Style protruded. Ovary glabrous. 

 — Sandy heaths. Wareham, Dorset. Edgecombe Downs near 

 Oarolew, Cornwall. Mr. More, the author, and others have failed 

 to find it near Clifden, Co. Galway. Sh. VH. VIII. E. 



** Cor. bellshaped or shortlg tubular, stam. exserted, filaments 

 flattened, style capitate. Gypsocallis D. Don. 



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

 above convex with a central furrow beneath, decurrent Hue from 

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

 axillary drooping racemose, cor. cylindricaUurceolate twice as 

 1 ong as the coloured calyx, anth. terminal not. spurred opening 

 throughout nearly their whole length. — E. B. 8. 2774. E. 

 hibernica 8yme. — 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. — Moun- 

 tain bogs. West of Mayo and Galway. Sh.IV. I. 



