206 47, ERICACEA. 
but persistent, clusters terminal.—Ardutus Sm., E. B. 2030. St. 
6. 8.—St. woody, trailing, long. IL. obovate, reticulated. Fi. 
white, hairy about the mouth. Berry smooth, black.—Dry bar- 
ren spots on the Highland mountains. Sh. V. 8. 
2. A. Uva-ursi (Spr.); procumbent, 1. obovate entire shining 
evergreen, clusters terminal.— Arbutus Sm., E. B. 714. St. 6.8. 
—St. woody, trailing, long. L. obtuse, quite entire. FI. rose- 
coloured, smooth. Berry globose, scarlet.—Dry stony mountain 
heaths. Sh. VI. 
Tribe II. Ericee. 
3. ANDROMEDA Linn. 
1. A. polifolia (L.); 1. alternate lanceolate with revolute 
margins glaucous beneath, fl. subumbellate terminal.—E. B.713. 
—St. slender, woody, prostrate below. FI. drooping, ovate, pink, 
occasionally 4-fid and 8-androus. L. evergreen, acute. Pedun- 
cles 2 or 3 times as long as the flowers, not as in E. B.—Peat 
bogs. Sh. V.—IX. 
4. Catiuna Salisd. 
1. C. vulgaris (Salisb.).—E. B. 1013.—A low tufted shrub 
with small sessile closely imbricated keeled leaves arranged in 4 
rows, each 1. having 2 small spurs at the base and nearly or quite 
smooth. Fl. small, shortly stalked, drooping, rose-coloured or 
white.—f. tomentosa; 1. hoary.—Dry heaths. Sh. VI—VII. 
Common Heath. Ling. 
5. Erica Linn. Heaths. 
* Cor. globose or urceolate, stam. included, filaments capillary, 
stigma peltate. Trica D. Don. 
1. E. Tetralix (L.); 1.4 in a whorl lanceolate or linear ciliated 
downy above and on the midrib beneath, margins revolute, fl. ca- 
pitate, sep. linear downy ciliated, anth. awned, ovary downy.— 
E. B.1014.—St. branched below, often in a determimate manner 
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 flowers. Tips of young shoots green. 
Young |. always downy above, old 1. sometimes glabrous. Sep. 
downy and mealy. FI. rose-coloured. Style usually included. 
—Mess. Watson and Borrer have found near Truro in Cornwall 
a plant with a ventricose cor. and fl. more or less racemose which 
is called K. ciliaris, 8. W’atsoni by Bentham. It may be a hybrid 
between £. ciliaris and E. Tetralix, Its downy ovary distin- 
guishes it from E. Mackaiana.—Bogey heaths. Sh. VII. VIII. 
