L. ERICACEAE. 
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Andromeda .] 
1. M. ccerulea S\v. ( Scottish M. ) ; leaves scattered numerous 
linear toothed, flower-stalks terminal aggregate simple, flowers 
5-cleft decandrous. E. B. t. 2469. Phyllodoce taxifolia Sal. 
Heathy moor on the “ Sow of Athol,” at Dalnaspidal, Perthshire, 
h . 6, 7. — A small shrub; stems branched, woody and naked below. 
Peduncles 2 inches long, glandular, reddish. Flowers large, beautiful 
purple-blue. Cor. urceolate. — This plant is far more common in 
North America than in Scotland. It scarcely yields in beauty to the 
following species. 
2. M. polifolia Juss. ( Irish M ., or St. Dabeoc's Heath ) ; leaves 
ovate the margins revolute white and downy beneath, flowers 
4-cleft oetandrous in terminal leafy racemes. Erica Dabeoci 
L. : E. B. t. 35. Dabeocia polifolia Don. 
Mountainous heaths in Ireland. Croagh Patrick, county Mayo. 
Abundant in Connemara. Sometimes with pure white fl. b • G — 
4. Azalea Linn. Azalea. 
Cal. 5-partite. Cor. shortly campanulate, regular, deciduous. 
Siam. 5, straight, inserted at the base of the cor. Anthers burst- 
ing longitudinally. Caps. 2 — 3-valved,2 — 3-celled; dissepiment 
formed by the indexed margins of the bifid valves. Seeds at- 
tached to a central, at length free, receptacle. — Named from 
a£a\eoi-, parched , arid ; because in such places the plant grows. 
1. A. procumbens L. ( trailing A .) : E. B. t. 865. Chamas- 
ledon Link. Loiseleuria Desvaux. 
Dry moory. ground, on most of the Scottish Highland mountains, 
among grass and moss; especially abundant in the north, and no- 
where perhaps more plentiful than on the Cairngorm range, where 
it forms large dark green patches, b • 5, 6. — A low shrub, with 
very woody tortuous sterns, and crowded leafy branches. This is the 
only species, among all those often placed in the genus, to which the 
name Azalea is applicable. 
5. Andromeda Linn. Andromeda. 
Cal. deeply 4 — 5-cleft. Cor. ovate or campanulate, decidu- 
ous. Stani. 8 — 10. Anthers, with awns. Caps. 4 — 5-celled, 
loculicidal, the dissepiments from the middle of the valves. — 
Named in allusion to the fable of Andromeda , whose condition, 
chained to a rock and exposed to the attack of a sea-monster, 
was considered analogous to that of this beautiful tribe of plants, 
growing on “ turfy hillocks in the midst of swamps ” frequented 
1,1 by toads and other reptiles.” Linn. Lack. Lap. p. 188. 
1. A. polifolia L. ( Marsh A.)\ leaves alternate lanceolate 
their margins revolute glaucous beneath, flowers in short termi- 
nal racemes. E. B. t. 713. 
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