OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Erica. 225 



not aware perhaps that no other supposed Erica has been 

 found to have such a capsule, or indeed such a calyx. 



1. C. vulgaris. Common Ling. 



C. vulgaris. Hull u. 1 . 1 14. Hook. Scot. 1 19. 



Erica vulgaris. Linn. Sp. PI. 50\. Wilkl.v.2.373. Fl.Br.4\7. 

 Engl. Bot. v. 15. «. 1013. Curt. Lorid.fasc. 5. t. 30. Raii Sijn. 

 470. Bull. Fr.t. 341. Fl. Dan. t.677. Ger. Em. 1380./. Ehrli. 

 PL Off. 173. 



E. n. 1012. Hall. Hist. V. 1.432. 



Erica. Matth. Valgr. v.l. \37.f. Corner. Epit. 75. f. Trag.Hist. 

 952./. Fuchs. Hist. 254./. 



jS. E. vulgaris hirsuta. Raii Syn. 47 1 . Don H. Br. 56. 



E. ciliaris. Huds. ed. 1. 1 14 ; not of Linnaus. 



Common every where on dry moors, heaths, and open barren 

 wastes 3 as well as in wood's where the soil is sandy or turfy. 



Shrub. June, July. 



Stems bushy, repeatedly and irregularly branched. Leaves deep 

 green, minute, sessile, acute, keeled, somewhat arrow-shaped, 

 closely imbricated on the young branches, making a quadrangu- 

 lar figure, like a close-beaten chain ; they are generally smooth, 

 but in /3 densely hoary all over. Fl. stalked, drooping, in longish 

 unilateral clusters, soon overtopped by leafy shoots. Inner calyx, 

 which is the most conspicuous part of the flower, of a shining, 

 permanent rose-colour. Cor. paler and much shorter. Jnth.not 

 reaching beyond the corolla. Style longer. 



Grouse and other birds, as well as some quadrupeds, eat the seeds 

 and young shoots. 



There is a white-flowered variety ; and a very beautiful double red 

 one, cultivated in gardens, whosejlowers, from a copious multi- 

 plication of the corolla, resemble little roses. 



217. ERICA. Heath. 



Linn. Gen. ]92. Juss.\60. Fl.Br.4\7. Tourn.t.373. Lam. 

 ^ 287./ 2—5. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 216. 



Cal. inferior, of 4 ovate-oblong, permanent leaves. Cor. of 

 1 petal, ovate-oblong or bell- shaped, more or less elon- 

 gated, 4-cleft, withering. Filam. from the receptacle, 

 capillary. A/ith. terminal, erect, cloven, opening by lateral 

 orifices, which adhere to those of the next anther till the 

 pollen is discharged. Germ, superior, roundish. Style 

 thread-shaped, erect. Stigma obtuse. Caps, roundish, 

 with 4 furrows, 4 cells, and 4 valves, each bearing a par- 

 tition from the centre. Seeds numerous, minute. 



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