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L. ERICACEAE. 
[ Calluna. 
6. E. Mediterranea L. ( Mediterranean Hi) ; anthers without 
awns deeply bifid and as well as the style exserted, corolla 
narrow urceolate, bracteas above the middle of the peduncle, 
calyx coloured, fiowers in leafy racemes, leaves 4 in a whorl 
linear glabrous flat above convex with a central furrow beneath, 
ovary glabrous. — /3. Hibernica, flowering branches and style 
shorter. Hook, in E. B. S. t. 2774. 
ti. Mountain-bogs in the west of Mayo and Galway, Ireland, 
b . 4. — The Irish plant seems intermediate between the E. 
Mediterranea of Bot. Mag and E. cornea : the stem is sometimes 
2 — 5 ft. high, with numerous upright rigid branches, as in E. 
Mediterranea, sometimes only 4 — 8 inches high witli spreading 
branches. Mr. Bentham, indeed, unites them all under E. cornea. 
2. Cacluna Salisb. Ling. 
Cal. of 4 coloured leaves, concealing the cor., accompanied 
by 4 bracteas, resembling an outer calyx. Cor. campanulate, 
marcescent. Stum. 8. Caps. 4-celled, 4-valved, septicidal and 
septifragal ( valves opening at the dissepiments which separate 
from them and adhere to the axis of the fruit). — Named from 
tcaWvvw, to cleanse or adorn ; and hence peculiarly applicable, 
as Sir J. E. Smith observes, to this plant, whether we consider 
the beauty of its flowers, or the circumstance of brooms being 
made of its twigs. 
1. C. vulgaris Salisb. (common L.). Erica L. : E. B. 1. 1013. 
Heaths and moors, common ; sometimes with white fl. h . 6 — 8. 
— A low, much-branching, tufted shrub. Leaves small, opposite, with 
two small decurrent spurs at the base, more or less pubescent, and 
even hoary in /8. of Sm. (the E. ciliaris Huds. not Linn.), closely 
imbricated in 4 rows. Flowers small, reddish, drooping, nearly sessile, 
ovate. A plant much employed for brooms and for fuel. It makes 
excellent edging to garden-plots, and bears clipping as well as box. 
3. Menziesia. Sin. Menziesia. 1 
Cal. cleft to the base into 4 — 5 deep segments, or 4-lobed. 
Cor. ventricose, deciduous. 'Stain. 8 — 10. Capsuled — 5-celled, 
septicidal (the dissepiments formed by the indexed margins of 
the entire valves, and opening between these dissepiments). — 
Name: “Nomen dedi,” says the learned founder of this genus, 
“in honorem Archibald! Menzies Scotici, peregrinatoris et. bo- 
tanici indefessi, priscae fidei ac urbanitatis viri.” 
1 This genus is by some divided into three: — 1. Phyllodoce Sal. Cal. deeply 
5.cleft. Filaments longer than the anthers. Stigma peltate, with 5 tubercles. 
Seeds oblong compressed — 2. Dabeocia Don. Cal. deeply 4-cleft. Filaments 
shorter than the anthers. Stigma truncate. S^eds ovate. — 3. Menziesia Sm. Calyx 
4-lobed. bilaments longer than the anthers. Stigmas obtuse. Seeds tcobiform. 
The first two are evergreen : the last has deciduous leaves, and is a native only of 
America ; it is no doubt the original species of the genus, but Smith afterwards 
changed the character so as to exclude it, and include the European ones. 
