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THE HEATH FAMILY. 



Fig. 625. 



evergreen, with their edges rolled back, 

 and very glaucous underneath. Flowers 

 on rather long pedicels, in short, termi- 

 nal racemes or clusters ; the calyx small, 

 deeply 5-lobed ; the corolla pale-pink, 

 ovoid, enclosing the 10 stamens. 



In peat-bogs in northern Europe, 

 Asia, and America, to the Arctic regions, 

 and in the great mountain-chains of cen- 

 tral Europe. In Britain, confined to 

 central and northern England, southern 

 Scotland, and Ireland, but absent from 

 the Scotch Highlands, where the plants 

 of similar Continental distribution are 

 usually found. Fl. all summer. 



V. LOISELEURIA. LOISELEUEIA. 



A low, trailing shrub, with small, opposite leaves. Sepals 5. Corolla 

 campanulate, 5-lobed. Capsule free,- with 2 or 3 cells, opening in as 

 many valves by the splitting of the partitions, and containing several 



The single species of which this genus consists, was included by 

 Linnaeus among his Azaleas, and some botanists retain that name for 

 it, proposing to give that of Anthodendron to the showy shrubs so well 

 known as Azaleas in our American gardens, but such a change would 

 entail great useless confusion in synonymy, and the name of Loise- 

 leuria is now generally adopted, at least by Continental botanists. 



1, Trailing Loiseleuria. Loiseleuria procumbens, Desv. 

 (Fig. 626.) 



{Azalea, Eng. Bot. t. 865.) 



Leaves numerous, evergreen, only 2 

 or 3 lines long, ovate or oblong, shining 

 on their upper side, with the edges rolled 

 back. Flowers small, and rose-coloured, 

 in short terminal clusters. Valves of the 

 capsule usually shortly split at the 

 top. 



On mountain moors, in northern and 

 Fig. 626. Arctic Europe, Asia and America, and 



