OCTAXDRIA. iO 1 



Botanical Generic Names. Common Names. 



Erica" 5 Heath 



11 CE not hera 2 Tree-primrose 



11 Populus 3 Poplar 



27 Vaccinium 4 Whortle-perry-shrub 



ORDER 2. 



No British Plant of this Order. 



UPRIGHT GALENIA. This plant was named digynia. 

 by Linnaeus to commemorate the celebrated physician T ri;til .., # 

 Galen, who flourished in the second century. 1 It is 

 a shrubby plant, a native of the Cape of Good Hope, 

 and flowers from June to August. 



ORDER 3. 



CLIMBING BUCK-WHEAT is commonly trigynia. 

 known by the name of Black Bind-weed, probably ThreePis . 

 from the dark colour of its seeds. It is a very com- tlUtl - 



^ The number of different species of Heath are not ascer- 

 tained. Mess. Lee and Kennedy have in their garden at Ham- 

 mersmith 430 species or varieties of this Genus. 



1 Claudius Galen was a native cf Pergamus, in Asia. lie 

 died A.D. 140, in the seventieth year of his age. 



