OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Erica. 2^ 



E.cinerea. Linn, Sp.PlA)0\ . mild.i\2. 37S. H.Br.AlS. Engl. 

 Bot. V. 15. t. 1015. Curt. Lomlfasc. 2. t. 25. Hook, Scot. 119. 

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



E. tenuifolia. Ger. Em. 1282./. Raii Si/n. 4/1. 



E. coridis folio sexta. Clus. Hist. v. 1 . 43./. Dalech. Hist. 1 89./. 



E. pumila, calyculato unedonis flore. Lob. Ic. v. 2.212./ 



On dry turfy heaths, every where, plentifully. 



Shrub. Jubj — October. 



Stem a foot high, or more, ^vith numerous, upriglit, 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 cahjx, which is smooth, acute, somewhat mem- 

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

 nous and everlasting 5 occasionally pure white. Anth. \\A\\\ Vi 

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

 Capsule like the last, but smooth. 



3. E. vagctifs. Cornish Heath. 



Anthers simple, dee})ly 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. Willd. Sp. PL v. 2. 412. JViih. 373. 



FL Br. 4 1 9. EngL Bot. v.\.t.3. Dicks. Dr. PL 62. 

 E. multiflora. Huds. 166. 

 E. didyma. JVith. ed. 2. 400. 

 E. fulio corios multiflora. Bad Stjn. 4/1 ; but r.ot of J. Bauhin. 



On heaths in Cornwall, abundantly. 



Shrub. Jubj, August. 



Stem woodv, 1-1 or 2 feet high, copiously and deterniinately 

 branched, with a smooth, ])ale, deciduous bark. Leaves ever- 

 green, smooth, linear, acutely rcvolute, 1 in a whorl 3 convex 

 on the up])er side. Flower-stalks axillary, capillary, coloured, 

 crowded together, in great numbers, for a considerable sj)ace 

 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-shoped, with a (lee])ly 4-cleft, sj)read- 

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

 apj)en(lages, 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 

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



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