572 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRI'TANNICUM. 
places, in mosses and bogs, with E’mpetrum. Height 
6in. Introduced ?. Flowers red; June. 
2. 2. B. Ste’Lterr D. Don. Steller’s Bryanthus. 
Identification. D.Don, 1 c.; Don's Mill., 3. p. 833. 
Synoaymes. Ardrémeda Stelleré@na Pall. Fl. Ross. p. 58. t. 74. f. 2.5 
Menziéséa empetriférmis Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 1. p. 265., but not of 
others. 
Engravings. Pall. Fl. Ross., p. 58. t. 74. f. 2. ; and our fig. 1074. 
Spec. Char., &c. Branchlets 
glabrous. Leaves with ob- 
solete crenulated -edges. 
Flowers solitary, nearly 
sessile. Anthers 2-horned <2 
behind. Style conical. 
Flowers pale red. (Don’s 
Mill.) A trailing diminu- 
tive evergreen shrub. 
North-west coast of Ame- 
rica, on the Rocky Moun- 
"1073. B. Gmaliné, tains, and near the mouth 1074. B. Stéllers, 
of the Columbia River, 
and in the Island of Sitcha. Height 6in. Introduced ?. Flowers pale red, 
larger than in B. Gmélint; June. 
Genus XIII. 
del 
DABC C14 D, Don. Tue Daseecia. Lin. Syst. Octandria Monogynia. 
Identification. D.Don in Edinb. New. Phil. Journ., 17. p. 160.; Don’s Mill., 3. p. 833. 
Synonymes. Erica sp. Lin.; Andrémeda sp. Lin. ; Menziéséa sp. Juss. 
Derivation. D. polifdlia D. Don is called, in Ireland, St. Dabeoc’s heath. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 4-parted. Corolla oval, ventricose ; limb 4-toothed. Sta- 
mens 8, euclosed ; filaments dilated, glabrous. Anthers linear, sagittate 
at the base; cells of anthers parallel, loosened at the apex, dehiscing 
lengthwise. Stigma simple, truncate. Capsule 4-celled, with a septicidal 
dehiscence. (Don’s Mill.) 
Leaves simple, alternate, exstipulate, evergreen; acerose, elliptic, flat, 
clothed with white tomentum beneath. Flowers terminal, racemose, purple. 
— Ashrub, evergreen, diminutive, bushy ; native of Ireland and the Pyrenees. 
wv 1. D. Potiro‘Lia D. Don. The Poly-leaved Dabeecia. 
Identification. D, Don in Edinb. New Phil. Journ., 17. p. 160.; Don’s MillL., 3. p. 833. 
Synonymes. Andrémeda Dabee'céa Lin. Syst. 406.; Zrica Dabee‘céa Lin. Sp. 509.; Menziésia 
Dabee‘c’a Dec. FI. Gall. 674.; Erica hibérnica, “c., Rati Hist. 3. Suppl. 244. Menziésia po- 
lifolia Juss. Ann. Mus. 1. p.55.; Vaccinium cantabricum Huds. Fi. Angi. ed. 1. p. 143.; Irish 
Whorts, Cantabrian Heath, St. Dabeoc’s Heath. 
Engravings. Eng. Bot., t.35.; Sweet’s Brit. Fl.-Gard., 2. 8. t.276.; and our jigs. 1075. and 1076. 
Spec. Char, §c. Leaves elliptic, flat, 
clothea with white tomentum beneath. 
Flowers in terminal racemes. (Don’s 
Mill.) A bushy, heath-like, evergreen ~ 
undershrub. Jvreland and the Pyre- || 
nees, on the sides of mountains and \ 
dry heaths, where it is very ornamental. 
Height 1 ft. to 2ft. Flowers purple ; 
June to September. 
Variely. 
1075. D. polifdlia. a D. p. 2 flore dlbo Swt. Brit. Fl. 1076. UD. potifolea. 
