Tas. 8443, 
ERICA ciLraris. 
a 
South-western Europe. 
ERIcACEARE. Tribe ERIcEAR. 
Enxtoa, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 590. 
Erica ciliaris, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 1, p. 854; Bot. Mag. t. 484; Benth. in DC. 
Prodr. vol. vii. p. 665; Syme, English Botany, ed. 3, vol. vi. p. 36, t. 887 ; 
affinis £. Tetralici, Linn., sed floribus racemosis, corolla obliqua et antheris 
muticis facile distinguitur. ‘ 
Frutex nanus, ramosissimus; rami glanduloso-pubescentes. Folia 4-na, patula 
vel subreflexa, brevissime petiolata, 1-5-5 mm. longa, 0°75-2 mm. lata, 
ovata, ovato-oblonga vel lineari-lanceolata, acuta, basi rotundata, mar- 
ginibus revolutis et pilis longis glanduliferis ciliatis, glabra. Flores ad 
apices ramorum racemosi, foliis redactis bracteati. Sepala 3-3°5 mm. 
longa, folia simulantia. Corolla nutans, 1 cm. longa, oblique ovato-urceo- 
lata, glabra, pulchre purpurea. Stamina inclusa; antherae oblongae, 
muticae. Ovarium glabrum.—F. Maweana, Backhouse in Florist and 
Pomologist, 1882, p. 75.—N. E. Brown. 
The beautiful hardy Heath, Erica ciliaris, is a member 
of the interesting contingent of British species which 
elsewhere find a home in south-western Europe. This 
species in the United Kingdom is, in a wild state, to be 
met with only in the counties of Dorset, Cornwall and 
Galway. It extends thence to France, and is most plentiful 
in Portugal and Spain. An old garden plant, Hrica ciliaris 
was figured in this work at t. 484 more than a century ago 
and that figure affords a satisfactory idea of the species as 
met with in the British Islands, in France, and in Spain. 
But in Portugal, besides the ordinary form, there is another 
which, while it cannot be discriminated by any salient sil 
phological character even as a variety, is from the cultura 
standpoint so distinct and striking as to deserve a ‘ag in 
our pages, For the earliest record of this form and . its 
introduction to horticulture we are indebted to ae ze 
Mr. G. Maw, who met with it in Portugal in 1872. se 
once attracted the attention of the late Mr. J. McNab, who 
in a note written in 1875 calls attention to the fact ie 
Mr. Maw’s plant has a more compact habit of growth an 
Juny, 1912, 
