THE HEATHS AND BLUEBELLS. 
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It is bright pink in colour, and carries its flower 
heads on long stems. 
A delicately beautiful heath plant, Richea Gunni, 
grows in tufty masses on the top of the Buffalo and 
Baw Baw mountains. From a low tuft of harsh rough 
foliage, springs a flower crown, four or five inches in 
height, of most delicate waxy white bells. It is one 
of the most dainty and uncommon of all our heaths. 
The hardier heaths belong to the genus Styphelia, 
and these give flowers of all colours. Styphelia 
Sonderi is a brilliantly scarlet species with large 
flowers, which is found in the Grampians, the Mallee, 
and Stawell districts. Its seeds are produced in the 
form of succulent red berries, which are sweet and 
well flavoured; they are much relished by emus, and 
on that account the plant is often called the emu- 
berry bush. The native cranberry, Styphelia humi- 
fusa, belongs to this genus, and its sweet, succulent, 
glutinous berries are often eaten by children. 
Another species, Styphelia Richea, or Leucopogon 
Richea, is found in the form of a bush, or low tree, 
growing on the sand-hills along the sea coast. This 
bears edible white berries, which are not so well 
flavoured as those of the preceding species. 
Styphelia adscendens, with its peculiarly twisted 
greenish corolla, and Styphelia pinifolia, with yellow 
flowers, which looks like a minature pine tree, are 
two uncommon species worthy of notice. The heaths 
which are usually cultivated in gardens do not belong 
to the same order of plants as those mentioned. That 
order is Epacrideae, and the order to which the 
Ericas or true heaths belong is Ericaceae. There are 
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