_ were wanting, would at once difcriminate it. 
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Erica EMPETRIFOLIA. CROWBERRY- 
LEAVED HEATH. 
shee tes eds se estes deste sk se ses de 
Cla/s and Order. 
Ocranpria Monocynia. 
Generic Chara@er. 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta. 
Anthere apice bifide pertufe. Cap/. q-locularis, 4-valvis, 
poly{perma. a. a ? 
Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. 
_ ERICA empetrifolia foliis oblongis ciliatis, floribus verticil- 
| Jatis: calyce ciliato. Thunb. Prodr. p. 73. Linn. 
Soft. Vegetab, ed. 13. Gmel. p. 627. Linn. Pflanzen — 
ee tee 
ERICA empetrifolia antheris criftatis, corollis ovatis, foliis 
quaternis, — is feflilibus lateralibus. Linn. Sy/. 
Vegetab. ed.14, Murr. p. 366. Ait. Kew. v.1. p. 19. 
Tt is a moft pleafing circumftance, when plants afford cha- 
rafters by which they may with certainty be diftinguifhed ; 
moft of the Heaths are of this kind, and the prefent one in 
particular: exclufive of its great peculiarity of growth, fo ob- 
_ vioufly exprefled in our reprefentation of it, its flowers dif. 
fufe a ftrong honey-like fragrance, which, if other charafters 
It is one of thofe Heaths which are enumerated in the 
Hort. Kew. of Mr. Arron, and was introduced to the royal 
_ garden by Mr. Masson, in 1774; is now to be met with in 
— moft of the colle&ions of green-houfe plants about town, and 
flowers in May and June. A ee 
Is ufually propagated by cuttings, ope 
