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brous. — E. B. S. 2.900. — St. irregularly branched throughout, 
particularly above, densely and equally leafy quite iq) to the 
dowers. L. and sepals quite w ithout down, 1. mealy beneath : 
midrib bare, se]>. with a small jiortion of meal near the apex 
beneath otherwise quite bare. FI. j)urplish. Style jirotruded. — 
Between Roundstone and Clifden, Cuunamara. Sh. VIII. IX. 
Mackay’s Heath. I. 
3. E. cinerea (L.); Z. 3 in a whorl linear-lanceolate acute 
keeled beneath with a central furrow glabrous, Jl. in dense whorled 
racemes, sep. linear-lanceolate smooth acute keeled, auth. awned, 
ovary glabrous. — E. B. 1015. — St. with numerous upright 
branches. L. Hat above, minutely serrulate. FI. reddish-pur- 
ple. — Dry heaths. Sh. VII. VIII. Fine-leaved Heath. 
4. E. ciliaris (L.) ; 1. 4 in a whorl ovate ciliated the margins 
revolute, Jl. in terminal unilateral racemes, anth. without awns, 
mouth of the cor. oblique. — E. B. S. 2618. — St. long, straggling, 
each terminating in a long raceme of large oblong purple flowers 
and ))roducing numerous short barren branches. Style jirotruded. 
— Heaths. Wareham, Dorset. Carclew, Cornwall. Said to have 
been found in Cunnamara, I. Sh. Vll. VIII. E. 
** Cor. campanulate or shortly tubular, stam. exserted, filaments 
fiattened, style capitate. Gypsocallis D. Don. 
5. E. mediterranea (L. ?) ; 1. 4 in a whorl linear glabrous flat 
above convex with a central furrow beneath, decurrent line from 
the 1. reaching but not extemhng beyond the next whorl, fl. axil- 
lary (h’ooping 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-])atent. Bracts above the middle of the pedi- 
cels. Stam. and style slightly exserted, style afterwards elon- 
gated. Germen glabrous. — Our})lant 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 j)ores much longer in ]>roportion, and the cor. 
of a different sha))e. 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, conttncd to the Atlantic coast. — Mountain 
bogs in the west of Mayo and Galway. Urrisbeg; Crn’raan 
x\chil; Burrishoole Lake; &c. Sh. IV. I. 
6. E. vagans (L.); 1. 4 — 5 in a whorl hnear glabrous, fl. axil- 
