36 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
Sub-Gentjs I.— EU-EBJCA. Benth. 
Anthers lateral, with the filaments affixed to the back. Corolla 
ovate-urceolate or campanulate or globose, with an erect or spread- 
ing-recurved limb. 
SPECIES I— ERICA CILIARIS. Linn. 
Plate DCCCLXXXVII. 
Billot, Fl. Gall, et Germ. Exsicc. No. 1036. 
Stems with numerous short barren branches, which, as well as 
the main stem, are pubescent, with the pubescence intermixed with 
gland-tipped hairs. Leaves regularly whorled, 4 in a whorl, very 
shortly stalked, ovate, with revolute margins, pubescent above, 
glaucous with white stellate scales beneath except on the midrib 
which is pubescent, ciliated with long gland-tipped hairs, usually 
without fascicles of leaves in the axils. Elowers slightly drooping, 
very shortly stalked, in elongated dense terminal secund spike- 
like racemes. Pedicels about as long as the calyx, with a leaflike 
bracteole about the middle, and a leaflike bract at the base. Calyx- 
segments herbaceous, oblong-lanceolate, ciliated with gland-tipped 
hairs. Corolla four to six times as long as the calyx, ovate- 
urceolate-cylindrical, slightly curved downwards, with 4 very short 
deltoid teeth at the apex. Anthers included, without awns. Style 
exscrted. Capsule glabrous. 
In sandy heaths about Penryn, Truro, and St. Agnes, Cornwall ; 
between Arne and Corfe, Dorset ; near Clifden, Galway. 
England, Ireland. Shrub. Late Summer 
and Autumn. 
Steins wiry, 9 inches to 1 foot high, with numerous short barren 
branches gradually decreasing in length the higher they are on the 
stems. Leaves 4-farious, about \ inch long, in distant whorls on 
the stem, but crowded on the barren branches ; leaves or bracts of 
the raceme similar to the leaves, but narrower, and attenuated 
towards the base. Corolla rosy-crimson, paler on the lower side, 
s to \ inch long, ventricose on the upper side, with the mouth 
oblique and slightly contracted. Valves of the capsule splitting 
down the back of each cell. Plant dark-green. 
/')■/// ycd-leaved Heath. 
