OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Erica. 227 



E. cinerea. Linn. Sp. PI. 501. fVilld.v.2.378. Fl.Br.4l8. Engl. 

 Bot.v.lb.t.\0l5. Curt. Lond.fasc.2.t. 25. Hook. Scot. \\9. 

 Fl. Dan. t. 38. Bull. Fr. t. 237. 



E. tenuifolia. Ger. Em. 1282./. Rail Syn. 47 1 . 



E. coridis folio sexta. Clus. Hist. v. 1. 43./. Dalech. Hist. 189./. 



E. pumila, calyculato unedonis flore. Lob. Ic, v. 2. 212. f. 



On dry turfy heaths, every where, plentifully. 



Shrub. July — October. 



Stem a foot high, or more, with numerous, upright, round, hoary, 

 flowery and leafy branches. Leaves linear-lanceolate, flat above, 

 entire, smooth, with a dorsal furrow, 3 together, on short stalks, 

 and accompanied by short, leafy, axillary young shoots. Fl, 

 numerous, in dense leafy panicles, drooping. Bracteas 2, at 

 the base of the calyx, which is smooth, acute, somewhat mem- 

 branous. Cor. crimson, with a tinge of blue or grey, membra- 

 nous and everlasting ; occasionally pure white, .^nth. with a 

 double, serrated, dependent crest. Stigma with 4 notches. 

 Capsule like the last, but smooth. 



3. E. vagans. Cornish Heath. 



Anthers simple, deeply cloven, prominent as well as the 

 style. Corolla bell-shaped. Leaves four in a whorl. 

 Flowers on simple, crowded, axillary stalks. 



E. vagans. Linn. Mant. 2. 230. fVilld.Sp. PL r. 2.4 12. With.373. 

 Fl. Br. 4 1 9. Engl. Bot. v.l.t.3. Dicks. Dr. PL 62. 



E. multiflora. Huds. 166. 



E. didyma. With. ed. 2. 400. 



E. folio corios multiflora. Raii Syn. 471 ; but not of J. Bauhin. 



On heaths in Cornwall, abundantly. 



Shrub. July, August. 



Stem woody, 1^ or 2 feet high, copiously and determinately 

 branched, with a smooth, pale, deciduous bark. Leaves ever- 

 green, smooth, linear, acutely revolute, 4 in a whorl ; convex 

 on the upper side. Flower-stalks axillary, capillary, coloured, 

 crowded together, in great numbers, for a considerable space 

 about the middle of each branch, simple, single-flowered, rather 

 shorter than the leaves, each bearing a pair of small bracteas 

 towards the middle. Calyx-leaves ovate, smooth, coloured. 

 Cor. red, often white, bell-shaped, with a deeply 4-cleft, spread- 

 ing limb. Anthers small, of 2 distinct ovate lobes, without any 

 appendages, having an oval orifice at each side. Stigma obtuse, 

 with 4 slight notches. Caps, smooth. 



Our early botanists, even Ray himself, confounded this with the 

 Linnaean E, multiflora, common in the south of Europe. 



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