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Stems erect or ascending', slender. Leaves elliptical or oval, 
attenuated at each end, but generally more so towards the base, 
very shortly stalked, acute, with revolute entire margins, glabrous, 
shining - green above, glaucous-while beneath, with the midrib 
glabrous and prominent. Flowers drooping, in a sub-umbellate 
raceme, 2 to S at the extremity of the branches of the preceding 
year. Pedicels long, slender, 1-flowered, with oval scarious 
bracts at the base, but no bracteoles. Corolla globular-ovate- 
urceolate, with 5 small revolute acute teeth. Anthers with an 
awn from the back of each cell ; cells not produced into tubes. 
In peat bogs and on damp moors in the counties of Somerset, 
Hants, Stafford, Salop, Glamorgan, Denbigh, Chester, York, Lan- 
caster, the North of England and South of Scotland, not extending 
North of Perth and Renfrew. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Shrub. Early Summer 
and Autumn. 
Stems wiry, 3 to 18 inches long, clothed with slender radical 
fibres at the base, and with smooth brownish bark. Leaves bearing 
much resemblance to those of Salix fusca, f to 1^ inch long, very 
variable in breadth, though this, to some extent, no doubt depends 
how much of the margin is rolled back. Pedicels ^to finch long, 
red. Calyx purple, deeply 5-cleft, with the lobes lanceolate. Corolla 
£ inch long, bright-rose. Capsule erect, sub-globular, pentagonal, 
very dark-purple, glaucous. 
Marsh Andromeda, Wild Rosemary. 
French, Andromede a Feuilles de Folium. German, FoleybUUlrige Grcinke. 
This is a well-known common plant in northern bogs, with pretty pink flowers, 
somewhat like those of the heath, with lanceolate leaves. It is astringent in its 
nature, and has been used as a substitute for galls. It is said to be narcotic, or, at least, 
to give an intoxicating property to liquids in which it is infused. It is also alleged to 
have been destructive to cattle and sheep that have fed upon it ; but, as it always 
grows in bogs and marshes, it is probable that the situation is more to blame than the 
plant for their u« 
GENUS V.—L OISELEURIA. Desv. 
Calyx free from the ovary, 5-partite. Corolla hypogynous, 
deciduous, monopetalous, regular, widely funnelshaped-bellshaped, 
5-lobed. Stamens 5, nearly free from the corolla, included. 
Anthers obtuse at the apex, opening by longitudinal slits, without 
aAvns. Style straight, included. Emit a capsule, with 2 or 3 cells 
