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Erica Lawsoni. Lawson’s HEATH. 
Claft and Order. 
Octanpria Monocyrnta. 
Generic Charaéter. 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. perfiftens : limbo 4-fido. Authere ante 
anthefin per foramina @ lateralia connexe. Cap/. 4—8-locularis, 
4—8-valvis. : 
Specific Charatter and. Synonyms. 
Sef. 111. Coniflore grandes. Corolle inferne dilatata Jemuncia lon- 
giores. B. Antherae mutice Flores terminales. 
ERICA Law/oni; bra€teis calyci proximis, foliolis calycinis 
fubulatis, ftigmate exferto, foliis ciliatis floribufque qua- 
ternis. iF 3 | 
Descr. Stem a low, upright, pyramidal, branched fhrub. 
Leaves four together, oblong, ciliated at the edge with Riff 
fhort hairs, which are branched at the point of the leaf only, as 
far as we have obferved, and there barely vifible to the naked 
eye. Flowers, which are of a bright rofe colour, grow at the 
extremities of the branches, either fingly, or more generally 
four together ; but on the leading branches, the fhoot growing 
out beyond them, the flowers become in confequence axillary. 
Calyx of four fubulate leaflets, ciliated at the edge and coloured 
at the tip ; braétes two, clofe to and like the calyx, but only 
half the length; there is a third at the bafe of the very fhort 
peduncle, but this we rather regard as the terminal leaf, from 
the axil of which the peduncle grows; nor is it coloured li 
the other two. Corolla urceolate : tube about an inch long, di- 
lated and fomewhat diaphanous at the bafe, contraéted upwards: 
laciniz of the limb ovate-acute with the margins more or lefs 
