Tas. 80638. 
ERICA terMinatis. 
Southern Europe. 
Ericacea. Tribe ERIcEx. 
Erica, Linn,; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 590. 
Erica terminalis, Salish. Prodr. Stirp. in Hort. Chap. Allert. Vig. (1796), 
p- 296; habita foliis et inflorescentia /. australi simillima, sed sepalis 
anguste ovatis, corolla ellipsoideo-urceolari et antherarum cristis obsolete 
serrulatis differt. 
Frutex usque ad 5 ped. altus; ramuli erecti, stricti, rarius diffusi, dense foliati, 
juniores pubescentes. Folia seepissime quaterna, patentia vel rare 
adscendentia, lineari-oblonga, 23-4 lin. longa, vix acuta, subtus canalica- 
lata, primum parce puberula, cito glabrescentia. Flores 4-20, rarius 
30-40, in apicibus ramulorum umbellatim dispositi. Pedicelli circiter 
2 lin. longi, puberuli, bracteolis 3 linearibus instructi. Sepala anguste 
ovato-acuminata, 1 lin. longa. Corolla ellipsoideo-urceolaris, 2% lin. 
longa, rosea, glabra, lobis 3 lin. longis obtusis apice recurvis. Antherze 
incluse, basi cristis divergentibus obsolete serrulatis instructs. Ovarium 
subglobosum, pilis albis adpressis dense vestitum; stylus inclusus vel 
breviter exsertus.—Z. stricta, Donn, Hort. Cantab. ed. 1 (1796), p. 45, ex 
Willd. Sp. Plant. vol. ii. (1799), p. 366; Andr. Heaths, t. 134, et Heathery, 
t. 92. EH. pendula, Wendl. Bot. Beobacht. p. 48, et Eric. Icon. vol. i. 
fasc. 10, p. 13, cum tab. col., non Lodd. 2. multicaulis, Salisb. in Trans. 
Linn. Soc. vol. vi. (1802), p. 369. H. corsica, DC. Fl. Franc. vol. iii, 
p- 677, et Ic. Plant. Gall. Rar. p. 6,t.17. H. ramulosa, Viv. Ann. Bot, 
vol. i. pars 2, p. 169, et FI. Ital. Fragm. p. 4, t. 7, non Bartl. 
It is unfortunately necessary to substitute an almost 
forgotten name for that under which this Heath has long 
been familiar. Erica stricta, though first published in 1796, 
was a nomen nudum till 1799, when Willdenow, taking up 
the name from the first edition of “* Donn’s Hortus Canta- 
brigiensis,” supplied a description. Salisbury, in 1802, 
regarded Donn’s name as inapplicable, for he says of the 
material which he happens to have seen, “ caules undique 
diffusi, nequaquam stricti,” and called the plant /. multi- 
caulis. He had, however, in 1796, published a diagnosis of 
a species unmistakably identical with H. stricta, under the 
name of LJ. terminalis. A type specimen of this is pre- 
served in the Kew Herbarium, with a label in the hand- 
writing of Salisbury, who had crossed out ‘‘ terminalis,” 
and substituted ‘ multicaulis,” though the former was the 
earlier name. 
E. terminalis is a native of Corsica, Sardinia, Southern 
Marcu Ist, 1906, 
