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capitate, sep. oblong-ovate glabrous, anth. awned, ovary glabrous. 
— St. irregularly branched throughout, particularly above, densely 
and equally leafy quite up to the flowers. L. and sepals quite 
without down, 1. mealy beneath : midrib bare, sep. with a small 
portion of meal near the apex beneath otherwise quite bare. Fl. 
purplish. Style protruded. — Durieu's Asturian specimen exactly 
corresponds with the Irish plant. — Between Roundstone and 
Clifden, Cunnamara. Sh. VIII. IX. Mackay's Heath. I. 
3. E. cinerea (L.) ; I. 3 in a whorl linear-lanceolate acute 
keeled beneath with a central furroiv glabrous, fl. in dense whorled 
racemes, sep. linear-lanceolate smooth acute keeled, anth. awned, 
ovary glabrous. — E. B. 1015. — St. with numerous upright 
branches. L. flat above, the edges minutely serrulate. Fl. 
reddish-purple.— Drv heaths. Sh. VII. VIII. Fine-leaved 
Heath. 
4. E. ciliaris (L) ; I. 4 in a whorl ovate ciliated the margins 
revolute, fl. in terminal unilateral racemes, anth. without awns, 
mouth of the cor. oblique. — E. B. S. 2618. — St. long, strag- 
gling, each terminating in a long raceme of large oblong pur- 
ple flowers and producing numerous short barren branches. 
Stvle protruded. — Heaths in Dorset and Cornwall. Sh. VII. 
VIII. E. 
** Gypsocallis (D. Don) ; cor. campanulate or short-tubular, 
stam. exserted, filaments flattened, style capitate. 
5. E. mcditerranea (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. axil- 
lary drooping racemose, cor. cylindrical-urceolate twice as long 
as the coloured calyx, anth. without awns opening throughout 
nearly their whole length. — E. B. S. 2774. — St. 2 — 5 feet high, 
with numerous, upright rigid branches terminating in leafy ra- 
cemes of flesh-coloured flowers but afterwards prolonged. L. 
numerous erecto-patent. Bracts above the middle of the pedi- 
cels. Stam. and style slightly exserted, style afterwards elon- 
gated. Germen glabrous. — Our plant differs from E. carnea, to 
which it is referred by Bentham (DC. Prod. vii. 614.), by its 1. 
having a longitudinal furrow and not keel on the back, the de- 
current ridge from their base not extending beyond the next 
whorl (in E. carnea it reaches the second), the anthers much 
shorter and their pores much longer in proportion, and the cor. 
of a different shape. I am unable to detect any distinction be- 
tween our plant and a beautiful specimen of E. mediterranea 
from Portugal (Welw. Iter Lusit. 31.). The name is bad ; the 
plant being, it is said, confined to the Atlantic coast. — Moun- 
tain bogs in the west of Mayo and Galway. Urrisbeg ; Cur- 
raan Achil ; Burrishoole Lake ; &c. Sh. IV. I. 
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