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MENZIE'SIA* *. 
Linnean Class and Order. Octa'ndria f, Monogy'nia. 
Natural Order. Eri'cea:, Brown's Prod. p. 557. — Lindl. Syn 
p. 172 ; Introd. to Nat. Syst. of Bot. p. 182. — Loud. Hort. Brit. p. 
523. — Mack. FI. Hibern. p. 179. — Hook. Brit. FI. (4th ed.) p. 411. — 
Erica'ce.e ; subtribe, Eri'ceas Norma'les, Don’s Gen. Syst. of 
Card, and Bot. v. iii. pp. 785 & 786. — Loud. Arb. et Frutic. Brit, 
pp. 1076 & 1079. — Ericine.e, Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 450. — Rho- 
doukndra, Juss. Gen. Pl.p. 158. — Sm. Gr.ofBot. p. 114. — Syrin- 
gales; subord. Ericos.e ; sect. Ericina; ; type, Ericaceae; 
subtype, Ericid.e ; Burn. Outl. of Bot. v. ii. pp. 900, 937, 944, 946, 
and 948. — Bicornes, Linn. 
Gen. Char. Calyx (fig. 1.) inferior, of 1 sepal, divided nearly 
to the base into 4 or 5 segments, permanent. Corolla of 1 petal, 
inflated, nearly egg-shaped, deciduous ; limb in 4 or 5 small, 
spreading, equal segments. Filaments (fig. 2.) 8 or 10, thread- 
shaped, equal, shorter than the corolla, inserted into the receptacle. 
Jlnthers oblong, without horns or crest ; cloven at the base ; open- 
ing by 2 pores at the summit. Germen superior, roundish, fur- 
rowed. Style ( see figs. 1 & 3.) upright, angular, rather longer than 
the stamens, Stigma blunt, with 4 or 5 small notches. Capsule 
(see figs. 4 & 5.) elliptic-oblong, with 4 or 5 furrows, and as many 
valves and cells ; the partitions (dissepiments) formed by the in- 
flexed margins of the valves, and opening between them. Seeds 
(fig. 6.) numerous, small, oblong, acute, affixed to the ribs of the 
central column. 
The inferior, deeply 4- or 5-parted calyx ; the ventricose corolla, 
with a spreading 4- or 5-toothed limb ; and the 4- or 5-celled, 
many-seeded capsule, with 4 or 5 valves dehising through the dis- 
sepiments ; will distinguish this from other genera in the same class 
and order. 
Two species British. 
MENZIE'SIA POLIFO'LIA. Polium-leaved Menziesia. Irish 
Menziesia. Irish Heath. Irish Whorts. St. Dabeoc’s Heath. 
Heath Gardrobe. 
Spec. Char. Leaves egg-shaped, the margins revolute ; downy 
and white beneath. Flowers 4-cleft, with 8 stamens, in terminal 
leafy racemes. 
Juss. in Ann. du Mus. v. i. p. 55. — Ait. Ilort. Kew. (2nd ed.) v. ii. p. 3G0. — Sm. 
Eng. FI. v. ii. p. 223. — With. (7th ed.) v. ii. p. 480. — Gray’s Nat. Avr. v. ii. p. 
397.— Lindl. Syn. p. 173.— Ilook. Br. FI. p. 175.— Irv. Lond. FI. p. 242.— Mack. 
FI. Hibern. p. 180. — Menziesia Dabeoci, Sm. Comp. (3rded ) p. Cl. — Mack. Cat. 
PI. of Irel. p. 37. — Erica Dabeocii, Linn. Sp. Pi. p. 509. — Huds. FI. Angl. (2nd 
cd. ) p. 166. — Engl. Bot. t. 35. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. i. p. 420. — Erica Daboecia, 
Fig. 1. Calyx. — Fig. 2. Stamens. — Fig. 3. Unripe Capsule, with Calyx & Style. — 
Fig. 4. Ripe Capsule. — Fig. 5. Transverse section of ditto. — Fig. 6. A Seed. 
* So named, by Sir J. E. Smith, in honour of Archibald Menzies, F. L. S. &c. 
Surgeon and Naturalist to the expedition under Vancouver; in which voyage he 
collected many specimens of plants on the North-west coast of America, New 
Holland, Van Diemen’s Land, &c. t See fol. 42, n. t. 
