ERICACEAE. ;.. 
in terminal umbellate racemes. Pedicels longer than tho corolla, 
without bracteoles. Calyx deeply 5 -cleft. Corolla 5-toothed. 
Stamens 10 ; anthers obtuse at the base. Plant sub-glabrous, except 
llu 1 peduncles, calyx-segments, and capsule, which are clothed with 
gland-tipped hairs. 
On heathy moors. Very rare. On the Sow of Atholl, in the 
North of Perthshire, where it was believed to be extinct, until 
Professor Balfour rediscovered it in 1SG3. 
Scotland. Shrub. Summer. 
A small much-branched shrub, with the stems rarely above 
6 inches high, decumbent at the base. Shoots of the year glabrous. 
Leaves crowded, spreading. Pedicels f to 1^ inch long. Plowers 
drooping, about -| inch long, pinkish-lilac. 
Of this plant I have not seen British specimens in flower or 
fruit. 
Yeic-leaced JSIenziesia. 
Ttibe III.— ERICE.E. 
Corolla persistent, withering. The ilower-buds not combined 
into scaly inflorescence-buds. 
GENUS VII— ERICA. Linn. 
Calyx free from the ovary, 4-cleft or -partite. Corolla hypo- 
gynous, persistent and withering, monopetalous, oval- or globose- 
urceolate or cylindrical or bell-shaped, with 4 erect or spreading 
or revolute teeth, or more rarely 4 lobes. Stamens 8, included 
or inserted ; filaments free ; anthers often with 2 awns or crests 
at the base, opening by 2 pores or chinks at the apex. Fruit a 
capsule, with 4 cells opening loculicidally by 4 valves breaking 
away from the central placental column, to which a portion of 
each dissepiment remains attached, while the remaining portion is 
borne down the middle of the valve. Seeds very numerous. 
Shrubs, generally much branched, with linear verticillate or 
more rarely alternate rigid evergreen leaves, and usually drooping 
flow r ers, variously disposed, generally showy. 
The name of this genus of plants is derived from the word Epeixio (ereiko), I break, 
from the idea that some of the species destroy the stones formed by lithic acid in the 
human body. 
