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WILD FLOWERS OF THE BRITISH ISLES 
III. ANDROMEDA. Linn. — Another genus similar to the Strawberry-tree (Arbutus), from which 
it chiefly differs in the fruit, which is a dry 5-celled capsule, opening by 5 valves down the middle 
of the cells (loculicidal). 
Flowers globular, white or pink, in terminal clusters. Calyx of 5 sepals, united at the base, 
entirely free from and inserted below the seedcase (inferior) ; corolla globular or urn-shaped with 
5 reflexed teeth, not remaining with the fruit (deciduous), inserted below the seedcase (hypogynous) ; 
stamens 10, the anthers 2-celled, opening at the apex by 2 pores, sometimes spurred on the 
back ; carpels 5 ; fruit a dry 5-celled, many-seeded capsule, opening by 5 valves down the middle 
of the cells (loculicidal). Trees, shrubs, or herb-like undershrubs, growing in damp places, 
generally in peat-bogs. 
Marsh Andromeda. (Andromeda Polifdlia. Linn.) — The only British species. As 
just described. A well-known plant in bogs in the north. The flowers are \ inch long, waxy, 
flesh-colour, 2-8 in drooping terminal clusters ; the stems are slender and wiry, seldom more than 
6 inches high ; the leaves are evergreen, oval-lance-shaped, with the entire margins rolled back, 
smooth, and of a shining green above and whitish beneath. \Plate 4. 
Rare. In peat-bogs and on damp moors ; in central and northern England, southern and 
central Scotland (not extending north of Perth and Renfrew), and Ireland. May — September. 
Perennial. 
IV. AZALEA. Linn. — A genus consisting of the one species : — 
Trailing Azalea. (Azalea procum'bens. Linn.)— Flowers small, bell-shaped, rose- 
colour, in short terminal clusters. Calyx red, deeply lobed into 5 segments, free from and inserted 
below the seedcase (inferior) ; corolla widely bell-shaped, £ inch across, 5 -lobed, not remaining with 
the fruit (deciduous), inserted below the seedcase (hypogynous) ; stamens 5, the anthers without 
spurs and opening lengthwise by slits ; carpels 2 or 3 ; fruit a dry capsule, of a crimson colour, 
2-3-celled, and many-seeded, opening by the same number of valves by the splitting of the partitions 
of the cell-walls (septicidal). This pretty prostrate little shrub grows in dense masses in the 
Highlands of Scotland, forming large dark green patches ; the stems are woody, prostrate, and 
tangled, and the leaves are evergreen, dark and shining on the upper surface, and densely felted 
underneath with short wool, opposite, oval or oblong, with the margins strongly rolled in. 
(Loiseleuria procumbens. Desv.) 
This plant differs from the true Azalea — though classified as such by Linnaeus — by its 
anthers opening lengthwise by slits instead of at the apex by pores, and by its opposite leaves. 
\Plate 4. 
Rare. Rocky places on mountain summits in the Scotch Highlands, from Stirling northwards. 
May — June. Perennial. 
V. BRYAN'THUS. S. G. Gmel . — Flowers urn-shaped, in terminal clusters (umbellate racemes). 
Calyx deeply 5-lobed, free from and inserted below the seedcase (inferior) ; corolla urn-shaped, 
5-lobed, not remaining with the fruit (deciduous), inserted below the seedcase (hypogynous) ; 
stamens 10, anthers short, opening at the top by pores; carpels 5, with the stigma target-shaped 
(peltate) and having 5 tubercules ; fruit a 5-celled, many-seeded capsule, opening by 5 valves 
by the splitting of the partitions of the cell-walls (septicidal). Small evergreen shrubs with alternate 
leaves. 
Scotch Menziesia. (Bryan'thus COBPlileus. Dippel.)— The only British species. As 
just described. The inflated, urn-shaped flowers are about £ inch long, purplish, on long stalks, in 
