= bufhy as the pube/cens is by its twig y appe 
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#rica Pupescens. Downy-FLowerep’ 
: HEATH. © 
ee RE Hee ees i i ae 
ee Clafs and Order. 
OcTANDRIA Monocynia. 
: Generic Charaéer. : 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta. 
Anthere apice bifide ties Cap/. 4-locularis, 4-valvis, 
polyfperma. 
Specific Charaffer and Synonyms. 
ERICA pubefcens antheris bifidis inclufis, corollis fubovatis 
_ pubefcentibus, foliis quaternis linearibus — 
Linn. 2: Pl. ed. 2. ee oe 
ERICA ee iis folie ternis et atene linearibus 
- fcabris floribus berg. Giana Thunb. Prodr. p. 73. 
There are two Heaths very Reacrally. cultivated in the | 
nurferies about town, agreeing in many refpeéts, but differing 
in fize and hairinefs, which have been regarded as varieties of — 
each other and called by wrong ai nd inexpreffive names; to us _ 
they appear, on an accurate examination, to be diftin& fpecies : 
the better to elucidate them, we have figured and defcribed 
them both in the fame nuftaber? regarding the fmaller one as 
the pubefcens of Linn avs, its hai being of the flighter | 
kind, the other as a diftin& f{pecies, under the name of birti- 
fora, from, the fuperior roughnefs of the hairs on its bloffoms “g 
the Linnean defcription will indeed apply to either. 
__ The hirtiflora is much the largeft plant, growing ufually to 
twice the fize of the other, and 1s as much diftinguifhed by its 
yearance ; the birtifora 
is in all its parts more ftrongly haired, both in ftalks, leaves, 
‘and flowers; the form of the leaves is fomewhat alike in both, 
convex above and concave beneath; but in the pube/cens the 
leaves are narrower, the edges being rolled further back, fo 
as to make the cavity or concave part almoft linear, and to _ 
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