ERICACEAE. 37 
SPECIES II.— E RICA TETRALIX. Linn. Benth. 
Plates DCCCLXXXVIII. DCCCLXXXIX. 
Stems with rather elongate straggling branches, which, as well 
as the main stem, are more or less puberulent, with the pubescence 
intermixed with gland-tipped hairs. Leaves regularly whorlcd, 
4 in a whorl, very shortly stalked, oblong-ovatc, oblong or strap- 
shaped, with strongly rcvolutc margins, pubescent or sub-glabrous 
above, glaucous with white stellate scales beneath except on the 
midrib, ciliated with rather long or long gland-tipped hairs, usually 
without fascicles of leaves in the axils. Flowers slightly drooping, 
shortly stalked, in terminal slightly secund head-like umbels, which 
have sometimes a whorl of flowers beneath them. Pedicels a little 
longer than the calyx, with a leaflike bracteole about the middle, 
but no bract at the base, except in those of the whorl beneath the 
umbel when it is present. Calyx-segments herbaceous, lanceolate 
or oblong - lanceolate, ciliated with gland -tipped hairs. Corolla 
three, or four times as long as the calyx, oval-urceolate, scarcely 
curved, with 4 very short broadly-ovate teeth at the apex. Anthers 
included, each with 2 awns or spurs at the base. Style exserted. 
Ovary glabrous or downy. 
Sub-Species I.— Erica en-Tetralix. 
Plate DCCCLXXXIX. 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ, et Helv. Yol. XVII. Tab. MCLXIII. Fig. 1. 
'. Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 147. 
E. Tetralix, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1014. Bab. Man. Brit. Eot. ed. v. p. 215. 
Hook & Am. Brit. Fl. ed. viii. p. 270. Benth. in D. C. Prod. Vol. VII. p. 65. 
Stem sub-paniculately branched, the flowering-branches not all 
attaining the same height. Leaves with the margins usually so 
much rolled back as to be oblong or oblong-strapshaped, the upper 
side and midrib beneath generally pubescent. Branches, pedicels, 
and calyx-segments and capsule more or less pubescent or woolly- 
pubescent. 
On damp heaths. Common, and generally distributed, from 
Cornwall, the Isle of Wight, and Kent, to Orkney and Shetland. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Stems wiry, decumbent at the base, 9 to IS inches high, with 
the barren and flowering-branches erect. Leaves crowded on the 
