Localities. — In bogs and marshes, espeaially on a gravelly soil.— Berks ; 
Golden Gully, near Newbury: Mr. Bicheno, in Mavor’s Ayr. of Berks. — 
Cambridgesh. Isle of Ely: Rev. R. Rilhan. — Cheshire; Near Whitchurch, 
so plentifully, that the place where it grows is called Gule Moor : Mr. V ernon, 
in Blackst. Sp. Bot.— Cornwall ; Marsh, Gulval, and Ludgvan : Dr. Forbes. 
.At Swan Pool, near Falmouth; and near St. Just: Rev. J. P. Jones, in l'ot. 
Tour. — Cumberland ; Common about the Lakes: N. J. Winch, Esq. — Zleuon ; 
Bovey Heathfield, near the Coal Pits ; ILington; Manalon ; Ashhuiton ; Holme, 
&c. : FI. Devon.— Dorset; About Wareham : Ray. — Essex; Found near Mr. 
Warner’s Gravel-pit Pond, at Woodford Row, Woodford: Mr. R. Warner; 
1771. — Hants; Near R ufus’s Monument in the New Forest: Withering. In 
a bog above a large pond about a nice beyond lichen Ferry from Southampton : 
Mr. F’,. Jenner. — Kent; On Willsborough Lees, near Ashford, plentifully: 
K. Jacob, Ksq. ; 1777 — Lancashire ; Halsall Moss; Woolton Moss ; and Chat 
Moss: G, Croseiild, Esq — Lincolnsh. In the Fens: Meriiett; 1666. — 
Middlesex ; On Hounslow Heath : ibid.— Norfolk ; Dorsingham Moor: M a n- 
tyn. — Northumb. On moors near Harboltle Castle; and by Roadley Lake; on 
the South side of Tyne opposite Hepple; between W'oodhall and Huibottle; 
and on r he banks of Kimmer Lake near Ellingham-: FI. of Northumb. andJDurh. 
— Shropsh. I n Moreton Moors, three miles from Blymhill: Rev. S. Dickenson. 
Moss at Walford and Yestalls, near Walford ; Marbury Bog; Bogs near Elles- 
mrre; about l ee, near Ellesmere; and at 'l wyford Vownog near Westfelton, 
in great abundance: FI. Shropsh. — Surrey; Plentiful in a bog by Caesar’s 
Camp near F’arnham: Mr. W. W. Reeves. — Sussex; On Wateidown Forest, 
abundant by the bridge on the road from Tunbridge Wells to Bellsewe Green, 
and on each side of the stream as low down as Benhill Water Mill: Mr. E. 
Jennnii. At Berkley: Mr. W. W. Ref.vis- — Westmoreland ; Common about 
the Lakes: N. J. Winch, Esq. — Yorksh. Askham Bogs and Langwith, near 
York; coveting many acres at Lowland ; A nstwick Moss ; and Newton Dale, 
near Pickering : Mr. Baines, in Yorksh. FI. — Not uncommon in Wales. — 
Abundant in bogs and moorish ground in Scotland and Ireland. 
A Shrub. — Flowers in May. 
Stems upright, busby, 3 or 4 feet high, much branched : branches 
alternate, slender, pubescent, rust-coloured, and sprinkled with 
white dots. Leaves alternate, on short petioles, inversely egg- 
spear-shaped, pointed ; entire and tapering towards the base, dis- 
tantly serrated in the upper part, about an inch and a half lon£, 
deciduous, dark green on the upper surface, paler underneath, 
smooth, but covered with resinous dots, which emit a delightful 
fragrance when bruised. Catkins numerous, sessile, lateral, and 
terminal, formed during Summer in the axils of the leaves, and 
remaining through the Winter, expand the following Spring, before 
the leaves. Scales of the sterile catkins of a red shining brown ; 
the lower ones of the fertile catkins hairy towards the tip. Berries 
very small, covered with resinous dots, rather globose, angular, 
taper-pointed, with 3 shallow clefts, a small tooth being fixed to 
each (see fig. 8). Though the sterile and fertile flowers are ge- 
nerally produced on different plants, they are sometimes found on 
the same plant. — The specimen from which the drawing for the 
accompanying plate was made, was kindly communicated to me by 
my much-esteemed friend Mr. E. Jennek, of Lewes, Sussex, from 
whom I received a great number of specimens of the same plant, 
and all, like the one figured, monoecious. 
The Myhice/e are monoecious ov dioecious, amentaceous shrubs with resinous 
glands and dots, alternate, simple, leaves , and apetalous flowers. The sterile 
flowers have from 1 to 8 stamens ; with 2 - or 4-celled anthers , opening length- 
wise — Their fertile flowers have a 1-celled ovary , surrounded by hypogynous 
persistent scales. Their fruit is drupaceous, often covered with waxy secretions, 
or dry. The seed is solitary, and erect ; and th# embryo is without albumen. 
