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Erica AITONIA. AITON’S HEATH, 
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 Clafs and Order. 2 
OcTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 
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Cal, 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta s 
Anthere apice bifide pertufe. Capf. 4-locularis 4-valvis, — 
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Specific Character and Synonyms. 
: 2 AS : 
ERICA Attonia foliis fubternis fubappreffis, calycibus glutinofis, 
limbo corolle maximo. a2 
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ee Sisersias. Stem fhrubby, rifing to the height of feveral 
feet, together with the branches flender, and requiring fupports 
leaves for the moft part in threes, upright, and rather prefled 
_ to the ftalk, fomewhat linear, bluntifh, with a flight mucro,— 
glofly, and extremely vifcid, having a-groove down the 
middle of each; bafe pale green; flowers terminal, about three 
or four; peduncles reds calyx extremely glofly and gluti-- 
nous, with a groove down the middle of each fegment ; tube 
enlarged at the top, ftriped with red lines, and fomewhat 
fluted, limb very large, at firft white, changing to a pale red, | 
led into , which are ovate and obtuf 
ftamina within the tube; ftigma projeéting a little beyond it 
Mr. Masson difcovered this ry curious fpecies of Eri 
it has been found in one fpot only, at Swartfberg, near the — 
warm bath, in a moift fituation; it has been named Ajtonia, 
valued and moft excellent friend. 
have been ready to regard it as a diftin& genus, but c 
on no good grounds, : eee 
of the corolla an inch or more in leggth, cylindrical, a little - 
divided into four fegments, hi : 
at the Cape, where Lieut. Col. PATERSON informs me that 
at the defire of Mr. Masson, in commemoration of his much 
It differs fo widely from the reft of the genus, that f 
Is propagated by cuttings, but as yet is € a 
