OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Erica. 225 



not aware perhaps that no other supposed TLrica has been 

 found to have such a capsule, or indeed such a cali/jc, 



1. C. vulgaris. Common Ling. 



C. vulgaris. Hull t\ 1 . 1 14. Hook. Scot. 119. 



Erica vulgaris. Linn. Sp. PL 50]. PVilld. v.2. 373. Fl.Br.4\7. 

 Engl. Bot. i\ 15. ^. 1013. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. t. 30. Rail Syn. 

 470. Bull.Fr.t.3n.FLDan.t.677. Ger. Em.] 380./. Ehrh. 

 Fl.Off. 173. 



E. n. 1012. Hall. Hist. V.]. 432. 



Erica. Matth. Valgr.v. \. ]37 .f. Comer. Epit. 75./. Trag.Hist. 

 952./. Fuchs. Hist.2bA.f. 



,3. E. vulgaris hirsuta. P^.aii Syn. 471 . Don H. Br. 56. 



E. ciliaris. Huds. ed. 1. 144; not of Linnaeus. 



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

 wastes ; as well as in woods 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. Anth. 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, whose //o?rer5, from a copious multi- 

 plication of the corolla, resemble little roses. 



217. ERICA. Heath. 



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

 <. 287./. 2— 5. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 21G. 



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

 1 i^etal, ovate-oblong or btll-sha])ed, more or less elon- 

 gated, l-cleft, withering. Filam. iiom the receptacle, 

 capillary. Anth. terminal, erect, cloven, opening by lateral 

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

 pollen is discharged. Gnm. sui)crior, roundish. Stijle 

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

 witii 4- fiuTows, 4- cells, and l- valves, each bearing a par- 

 tition from the centre. Scrds numerous, minute. 



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