Willd. Sp. Pl. v. ii. pt. i. p.383.— With. (5thed.lv. ii. p. 462 .—Erica cantabrica. 
ftore maximo, foliis myiti, subtux incanis, Tourn. In»t. p. 603. — Dill, in Ray’s 
Syn. p. 472. — Erica hibernica, foliis myrti pilosis subtus incanis. Pet. Gazoph. 
p. 6. t. 27. f. 4. — Andromeda Daboecia, Linn. Syst. Veg., 13th ed. p. 338. ; 14th 
ed. p. 406. ; 15th ed. p. 434. — With. 1st ed. v. i. p. 247. ; 2nd ed. v, i. p. 425. — 
Vaccinium Cantabricum, Huds. Ft. Angl ( 1st ed. ) p. 143. — Dabae'Cia polifo- 
lia, D. t Don in Edin. Phil. Journ. 17. p. 160. — Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Rot. 
v. iii. p. 833. — Loud. Arb. et Frutie. Brit. v. ii. p. 1116, with a figure. — Macr. Man. 
Brit Bot. p. 150. 
Localitii s. — On mountains in the west of Ireland, in a boggy soil. Frequent 
on dry heaths over all the wild dislr el of Ounuamara, and the mountainous parts 
of Mayo: FI . Hib— It is recorded, in Watson’s New Botanist's Guide , on 
the authority of Miss Bi ll, as having been gathered in Sherwood Forest, in 
Nottinghamshire ; but Mr. Watson doubts whether it might not have been 
planted there. 
Shrub. — Flowers in June, July, and August. 
Stems bushy, from 12 to 18 inches high, much branched, nearly 
cylindrical, leafy, clothed with projecting hairs, often of a reddish- 
brown colour. Leave s numerous, rather crowded, on short pe- 
tioles, usually alternate, sometimes opposite, or even three together ; 
dark green and shining above, with a few scattered, glandular 
hairs ; densely clothed with white cottony down beneath, their 
margins entire, and slightly revolute. Flowers large, and hand- 
some, drooping, purplish-red, in terminal, simple racemes, each on 
a simple, somewhat viscid pedicel, accompanied by a small, strap- 
shaped, hairy bractea at its base. Calyx (fig. 1.) in 4, deep, acute, 
hairy, viscid segments. Corolla (fig. 4.) egg-shaped, a little con- 
tracted at the mouth, with 4 blunt anodes, and 4 recurved segments. 
Stamens (fig. 2.) 8, witlvwhite filaments. Anthers nearly as long 
as the filaments, a little shorter than the corolla, brown, somewhat 
arrow-shaped at the base. Capsule (see fig. 5.) of 4 cells, with 
partitions from the edges of the valves. 
A white-flowered variety is cultivated in gardens; it has also been found wild 
in lieland, (see Loud. May. Nat. Hist. v. iv. p. 167.) growing along with the 
common variety. Both varieties ate highly deserving a place in t lie flower- 
garden, and ate well fitted for decorating the fiont of shtubberies, or to be grown 
on rock-work or banks. 
The Natural Order Erice.e consists of dicotyledonous shrubs or 
tinder shrubs, with opposite or whorled, mostly evergreen and rigid 
leaves, without stipulse. The calyx is inferior, permanent, and di- 
vided into 4 or 5 segments. The corolla is of 4 or 5 divisions, 
regular or irregular, almost hypogynous, generally withering. The 
stamens are definite, and either equal in number to the segments of 
the corolla, or twice as many. r l he anthers are 2-celled, the cells 
separating at the apex or at the base, opening by pores, and often 
furnished with some kind of appendage. The ovary is surrounded 
by a disk or scales, and is many-celled, and many-seeded. The 
style is simple, with an undivided or lobed stigma. The fruit is 
capsular, many-celled, and many-seeded, with a central receptacle. 
The seeds are small, and have a fleshy albumen. 
The British Genera in this order are — Erica, t. 418. — Calluna> 
t. 76. — Menziesia, t. 449. — Azalea. — Andromeda, t. 361. — Arbu- 
tus — and Ledum. 
