L. ERICACEAE. 
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umbellato-capitate, pedicels hoary, ovary pubescent. E. B. 
t. 1014. 
Heaths and moory ground, abundant, h . 7,8. — Flowers rose- 
coloured, sometimes white, drooping; they have been found cleft 
into several divisions, and with the stamens turned into petaloid seg- 
ments. The species varies much as to the number of cilia; on the 
leaves and calyx, and occasionally loses them entirely. 
3. E. Mackdyi Hook. : Bab. ( Mackay's H .) ; anthers with 
2 acute awns at the base included, corolla ovate a little shorter 
than the style, leaves 4 in a whorl ovate ciliate glabrous above 
almost white beneath, flowers umbellato-capitate, pedicels nearly 
glabrous, ovary glabrous. E. Mackaiana Bab. : E.B.S. t. 2900. 
Between Roundstone and Clifden, Connemara, Ireland, h- 8, 9. 
— This was first found in Ireland by Mr. Wm. MacCalla and Mr. 
Ogilby, and distinguished by Dr. Mackay, and in the same year it 
was discovered on the Sierra del Peral, in Asturia by M. Durieu. 
The specific names, Mackayi or Machaii (Hook. ) and Mackaiuna 
(Bab.), are in this case all correct according to botanical rules, and 
differ merely in termination: both Sir William Hooker and Mr. 
Babington had agreed to dedicate this heath to Dr. Mackay, and 
although the one appellation was published shortly before the other, 
we have conjoined their names as the authority for the species. 
The broad, almost exactly ovate, leaves with a great proportion of 
nearly white surface beneath, would seem, at first sight, to dis- 
tinguish this specifically from the preceding; to which may be 
added, according to Mr. Babington, that the upper surface of the 
leaves and their midrib beneath are always glabrous, while these parts 
are downy in E. Tetralix. Perhaps however it may prove, by culti- 
vation, to be only a more glabrous form, with larger foliage. 
4. E. cinerea L. ( fine-leaved II.) ; anthers with two serrate 
appendages at the base included, style a little exserted, corolla 
ovate, leaves ternate linear keeled acute glabrous shining, 
flowers in dense whorled racemes, ovary glabrous. E. B. 
t. 1015. 
Heaths, abundant, h • 7 — 9. — Floicers drooping, reddish-purple. 
Leaves usually with fascicles of small leaves in their axils. The 
plant is used for various economical purposes : its flowers are some- 
times white. 
*** Mouth of the corolla straight. Anthers protruded, bipartite, awnlcss. 
5. E. vdgans L. ( Cornish H.) ; anthers without awns deeply 
bifid and as well as the style exserted, corolla campanulate, 
leaves 3 —4 in a whorl, flowers axillary crowded, ovary gla- 
brous. E. B. t. 3. E. multiflora Huds. (not L.) 
On heaths in Cornwall, chiefly in the Lizard. Islet on the coast 
of Waterford, near Tramore, Ireland. h ■ 7, 8. —Well distin- 
guished from all our British Ericce by its campanulate, not ovate, 
corolla. 
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