276 Ericacee—E rica. 
slightly-lobed corollas narrowest at the mouth and projecting 
anthers. Flowers on distinct axillary pedurcles. There are 
purple, pink, and white flowered varieties. South of Europe. 
2. E. Mediterrténea.—Another early-blooming species, though 
not so early by two months as the preceding. An erect shrub 
about 2 feet high. Jeaves linear-acute, revolute. Flowers 
pink, axillary, on short peduncles. Corolla ovoid, the small 
lobes spreading. Anthers slightly projecting. 2. Hibérnica, 
a plant found in Mayo and Galway, is referred to this species. 
3. EL. vagans.—This species is found in some parts of Corn- 
wall, but nowhere else in Great Britain. An erect shrub from 
1 to 3 feet high, densely clothed with linear glabrous leaves. 
Flowers pink, purple or white, on long peduncles, in dense 
axillary clusters; corolla campanulate ; anthers partially ex- 
serted. The only other native species, &. cilicris, has ciliate 
glandular leaves 3 or 4 in a whorl, flowers in a one-sided 
raceme. The corolla is ovoid, and the anthers included and 
awnless. It occurs in Dorset and Cornwall, and in Galway. 
E. arborea and £. scoparia, together with some other South 
European forms, are erect-growing shrubby kinds 3 to 6 feet 
or more high. L£. codonoides, syn. E. polytrichifolia, very near 
and perhaps a variety of F. arbdrea, is one of the hardiest 
and freest of this set. It is a slender much-branched shrub 
with small pale green leaves and numerous many-flowered 
racemes of small white and pink flowers produced in early 
Spring. 
3. MENZIESIA (Phyllédoce, Dabedcia). 
Heath-like shrubs. Leaves scattered, small. Flowers in 
terminal racemes, blue or pink or white. Corolla deciduous, 
ovoid, 4- or 5-lobed. Stamens 8 or 10. Capsule splitting 
between the cells. There are or were two species found within 
the United Kingdom, and several in North America. The genus 
was named in honour of Menzies, the naturalist of the Van- 
couver expedition. 
1. AL. cwrilea, syn. Phyllédoce taxifolia.—A handsome little 
evergreen shrub having crowded linear glandular-toothed 
leaves green on both surfaces and lilac-blue flowers. This is 
sometimes separated on account of the pentamerous arrange- 
ment of the parts of the flowers. <A very rare British plant, 
found also in other parts of Northern Europe, and in America 
and Asia. 
