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DABOECÏA polifolia; var. alba.
White-flowered Irish Heath.
Linnean Class and Order. O C T A N D R I A M O N O G Y N I A .
Natural Order. E R I C A C E Æ . s u b tr ib . 2 . A n d k o m e d e æ . Don in edmb.
p h il.jo u rn . Ju ly 1 8 3 4 , p . 1 5 2 . ^ j *
D A BOE C IA . Calyx 4 - p a r t i tu s . CoroZZa o v a lis , v e n tr ic o s a , lim b o 4 - d e n t a to .
Stamina 8 , in c lu s a . Filamenta d i la t a t a , g la b r a . Antheræ l in e a r e s , b a s i
s a g i t t a tæ : loculis p a r a l le l is , a p ic e s o lu t is , lo n g itu d in a l it e r d A i s c e n t i b u s .
Stigma s im p le x , t r u n c a tu m . Capsula 4 - lo c u l a r i s , s e p ti c id o - d e h is c e n s , s u b -
m em b r a n a c e a . P lac enta p r ism a t i c a . Semina s u b ro tu n d a , v e n tr ic o s a ,
g ilv a , læ v ia , c h a la z â p a r v a n o t a t a . . . , ,
F r u ti c u lu s (H ib e r n i® e t P y r e n æ o r . ) sempervirens. F o l i a elliptica, p la n a ,
subtùs niveo-tomentosa. F lo r e s terminales, racemosi, purpurei. D o n in 1.
c. p . 1 6 0 .
D . p o lif o lia . Don in l. c .p . 1 6 0 . O. Don, gen. sy st. gard. ^ bot. 3 . p . 8 3 3 .
M e n z ie s ia p o lif o lia . Juss. in ann. mus. 1. p . 5 5 . Persoon syn. Z. p . 4 1 9 .
Smith e n g ljì. 2 . p . 2 2 3 .
M . D a b e o c i. Smith comp.fl. brìtt. p . 7 0 .
A n d rom e d a D a b oe c l a . i i n r a . s y s i . r e p . eiZ- 1 3 . p . 3 3 8 .
E l i c a D a b oe c ii . Linn. sp. pi. p . 5 0 9 . Huds. angl. p . 1 6 6 . Thunb. diss. n. 1.
Willd. sp .p l. 2. p . 3 8 3 . Sm ith engl. bot. t. 35. f l . britt. 1 . p . 4 2 0 .
V a c c in ium c a n ta b r ic um . Huds. angl. ed. l . p . 1 4 3 . ^ ,
E . c a n tá b r ic a , flo re m a x im o , fo liis m y r t i p i lo s is s u b tù s in c a n i s . TourneJ. inst.
E . h ib e r n i c a , fo liis m y r t i p i lo s is s u b tù s in c a n i s . P e tiv .g a z . p . 4 2 . t. 2 7 . f. 4.
E r ic a s . D a b oe c ia h ib e r n i s . R a ii dendr. p . 9 8 .
|8. alba, t o t a p a ll id io r ; f lo r ib u s a lb is .
A dwarf, erect, bushy, evergreen shrub, rarely exceeding
two feet in height. Branches pale brown, leafy, copiously
clothed with glandular spreading hairs. Leaves stalked,
ovate-lanceolate, mucronulate, attenuated at the base,
revolute at the margin, white and downy beneath, dark
green and veiny above, and sparingly beset with short
bristly hairs, from 3 to 6 lines long, and from 2 to 3 broad.
Footstalks short, pale green, channelled above, and fringed