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downy above and cm the midrib beneath with revolute edg'SS, S, 

 in an umbellate head, sep. linear doivny 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 

 leaving a leafless space next to the iiowers. Tips of young 

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

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

 usually included. — /3. Watsoni; cor. ventrioose, fl. more or less 

 racemose. Sy. E. B. 888. It may be a hybrid. — Boggy heaths, 

 ^. Truro, Cornwall. Sh. VII. Vlll. E. S. I, 



2. E. Machaidna (Bab.) ; Lima whorl ovate ciliarte the 

 midrib beneath and upper surface fflabrous with revolute edges, fl. 

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

 ovary glabrous. — E. B. S. 3900.— St. irregularly branched through- 

 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 small 

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

 Fl. purplish. Style protruded. — Between Roundstone and Clif- 

 den, Co. Galway. Sh. VIII. IX. MacTcay's Heath. I. 



3. E. cinerea (L.) ; I. 3 in a lohorl linear-lanceolate acute 

 keeled beneath loith a central furrow glabrous, fl. in dense whorled 

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

 ovary glabrous. — E. B. 1015. — St. with many uprig-ht branches. 

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

 heaths, Sh. VH. VIII. Fine-leamd Heath. E, S. I. 



4. E. cilidris (L.) ; Z. 4 in a whorl ovate ciliate -^i^ revolute 

 edges, fl. in terminal wnilateral racemes, anth. not spurred, month 

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

 in a long raceme of large oblong purple flowers and producing 

 many short barren branches. Style protruded. Ovary glabrous. 

 ^Heaths. Wareham, Dorset. Edgecombe Downs near Car- 

 clew, Cornwall. Mr. More and I have failed to find it near 

 Clifden, Co. Galway. Sh. Til. VIII. E. 



** Cor. bellshaped or shortly 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 line from 

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

 axillary drooping racemose, cor. cylindrical-urceolate twice as 

 long as the coloured calyx, anth. terminal not spiu-red opening 

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

 hibernica Syme. — St. 2 — 6 feet high, with many upright rigid 

 branches terminating in leafy racemes of flesh-coloured flowers 



