[ 1548 3 

 Erica primuloides. Cowslip Heath. 



Clqfs and Order,. 



OcTANDRlA MONOCYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cal 4-phyllus. Cor. perfiftens : limbo 4-fido. Anther* ante 

 anthehn per foramina 2 lateralia connexae. Cap/. 4 — 8-locularis, 

 4— 8-valvis. 



Specific CharaEler and Synonyms. 



ERICA primuloides; antheris muticis, floribus terminalibus fub- 

 feflilibus qumis, bra£leis calyci proximis, foliis patentibus 

 quinis. 



-ERICA primuloides. Andr. Heaths, vol. 3. 



ERICA fajligiata. (3. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. v. 2. p. 395. 



ERICA dilefta hortulanorum. 



Although this fpecies is very nearly related to Erica fajli* 

 giata («) of Hortus Kewenfis, the E. Walkeria of Mr. Andrews, 

 yet we have little hesitation in confidering it as fpecifically 

 diftincl:. The growth of the two plants is very different, this 

 being a low deprefled fhrub, the other upright with erecl 

 branches and leaves ; the flowers and leaves grow as conftamly 

 b y fives in this as by fours in that. The tube of the corolla is 

 nearly cylindrical and very little longer than the calyx in 

 P^muloides, whilft in Walkeria it is above twice the length of the 

 calyx and more inflated. In the latter the outer fide of the 

 'acinije of the corolla are only flightly tinged with red towards 

 *he tip, but in the former the whole outfide of the limb is of a 

 dee P blood red. In our plant too the leaves are much longer, 

 a nd f far from being erea, that they are confiderably recurved. 



We received the plant from which our drawing was made 

 from Mr. Barr, at the Northampton Nurfery, Ball's-Pond, 

 Un der the name of dilecla, an appellation by which it is pretty 

 generally known among the Nurierymen about town, though it 

 i* as yet among the rarer fpecies. Native of the Cape of Good- 

 «op e , an( j requires the fame treatment as the other Heaths from 

 tha < country. 



