ERICACEAE. 



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very marked variety, with shorter and 

 broader leaves of a darker green, from 

 Cunnemara, in Ireland, and also from the 

 Asturias, has been distinguished under the 

 name of JE. Mackaia?ia (Eng. Bot. Suppl. 

 t. 2900) as a species, and was formerly 

 adopted as such by myself, but the nu- 

 merous intermediate specimens I have 

 since seen, induce me now to consider 

 it as a mere variety. Intermediate forms 

 between this and the following species, 

 observed near Truro, in Cornwall, are 

 believed to be natural hybrids. 



Fig. 631. 



4. Ciliated Heath. Erica ciliaris, Linn. (Fig. 632.) 

 (Eng. Bot. Suppl. t. 2618.) 



A very handsome species, readily 

 known by its raceme of highly- coloured 

 rosy flowers, of the size of those of St. 

 Daheocs Menziesia. It is a straggling 

 shrub, ciliated with short stiff hairs. 

 Leaves 3 in a whorl, ovate. Flowers in 

 short pedicels in the axils of the upper 

 leaves. Sepals small and ciliate. Co- 

 rolla about 5 lines long, with a small, 

 very oblique, 4-lobed mouth. Stamens 

 enclosed in the corolla, without any ap- 

 pendages to the anthers. 



A strictly western species, extending 

 from Spain and Portugal to the west of 

 Ireland, and not penetrating far inland. 

 Also found in Cornwall, and near Corfe 

 Castle, in Dorsetshire. Fl. early sum- 



Fig. 632. 



