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THE DICTIONARY. OF GARDENING, 
Erica—continued. 
Е. t. rubra (red).* /. about lin. long, reddish-purple, shading 
эле white, with a green neck. l. closely set, slightly spreading, 
iry. Е 
E. t. speciosa (showy). Л. lin. long, umbellate, slightly swollen 
below the rosy-red middle. LS linens:laticedlats, slightly spread- 
ing. 
Е, t. Wilsoni (Wilson’s).* f. liin. long, much inflated at the 
base, suddenly contracted at the neck. J. oblong-lanceolate, 
slightly spreading, profusely hairy. 
E. triumphans (triumphant). white, axillary ; calyx large, 
inflated, angular; corolla ovate; INA. June, July. 1. three 
іп а whorl, subulate, ciliated. A. 2ft. 1802. (L. B. С. 257.) 
E. trossula (Spruce). "o terminal; corolla with an open ventri- 
hit wee July. 1. four in a whorl, linear, glabrous. 
E. (wandering).* Cornish Heath. fl. axillary, racemose ; 
corolla pale purplish-red, short, campanulate ; pedicels usually 
twin. July to September. J. four or five in a whorl, acerose. 
i h. 1ft. Western Europe (Cornwall). Hardy. (Sy. En. B. 893.) 
| E, ventricosa (ventricose). т disposed in terminal umbellate 
. fascicles; corolla purplish-r with a ventricose tube, waxy; 
style inclosed. April to September. Z. fourin a whorl, short, 
acerose, — and, as well as the calyces and bracts, 
ciliated. А. Lt. 1787. (В. M. 350.) Of this very handsome, 
compact, and free-branching Heath, there are numerous varieties. 
E. v. alba (white). china white, tubular, about lin. long. 
1. with short white woolly hairs at the edges, 
E. v. brevifiora (short-flowered тей, sh 
“thickest at the base. b. A Trapt онон нан, 
E. v. carnea 
swollen at the 
E. v. coccinea minor 
tubular; tubes Zin. long ; 
(R. H. 1880, 50.) 
E. v. fasciculata rosea (rosy-fascicled . stout, lin. long; 
tube bright rose, deep реті attics — x ы b * 
E. v. grandiflora e-flowered),* E , Stout, 
tubular, over lin. in Heu 1. long, 0 r Pa mom me 
E. v. splendens (splendid). numerous, nearly lin. long, 
swollen in the middle: tubes TOR. neck and limb le up 
and white. l long, linear, recurved, hairy. 
Е, v. tricolor (three-coloured)* f, tubular, 
. tubes blus ced ; 
fiesh-coloured). jl flesh-colour, lim. long, slightly 
(lesser scarlet)* fl. white, slender, 
lobes of limb reflexed and bright red. 
nearly lin. long ; 
| h ; neck : i ite. 
1. linear, slightly reflexed. RE e imb white 
E. verticillata (verticillate). /l. crowded, nearly terminal, ver- 
мае, drooping ; corolla ве iie with’ а drical initated 
glabrous. А. ЗН. 1774. (AHL. 148) > B cn 
E. vestita (clad).* /. crowded, verticillate, nearly sessile, 
spreading ; corolla white, c more or less clavata, nine 
_ to eleven lines long, dow: 
ments ciliated wit 1 
With a revolute limb; calycine seg- 
lar hairs. linear, with 
- The following are ie andre im- 
E. v. alba (white).* Л. hardly lin. in length, pure white; 
to twen pL. n p C „азыу аша аи 
* Erv rosea (rosy). fi. rosy-red, about 1 T 
twenty to thirty. es HORUM 
E. Victoria (Victoria).* Л. d urpl 
umbellate, flask-shaped, Tin. or more long В i 
what ovate, awned, with short stiff spines round the edges. 
(Westphalian).* Ji 
т. J. linear-obtuse. Hybrid. 
“ERICACEZ. An extensive order, widely spread over 
hole world (but very rare in Australia), containi 
wing into small trees. Flowers regular, or nearly 
iphrodite ; calyx superior or inferior, of four or five 
corolla four or five-cleft, or toothed; stamens 
eight, or ten, or twice those numbers, hypogy- 
ynous. Fruit a capsule or berry. Leaves 
seven genera and about 1300 species. The species · 
the most part, shrubs or sub-shrubs, but occasion- — 
alternate or opposite, ex. 
м»: очы, Cassandra, | 
ERICINELLA (a diminutive of Erica). ORD. Eri- 
cacee. А genus of four species of small-flowered, slender, 
bushy, erect, greenhouse evergreen shrubs, with a Heath- 
like appearance. They are natives of South Africa and 
the mountains of tropical Africa and Madagasear. Pro- 
bably none have ever been introduced, except the follow- 
ing. For cultivation, see Erica. 
E. Mannii (Mann's) Л. dull red, three or four together at the 
tops of the branchlets, on short, curved pedicels, nearly globose ; 
corolla sub-globose, with four short, obtuse, ciliate lobes. July, 
{. quaternate, close-set, whorled in fours, linear, with revolute 
margins, glabrous. л. 4ft. to 10ft. Cameroon Mountains, 1866. 
(В. М. 5569.) _ | 
ERIGERON (from Eriogron (early old), the name 
given to a Composite by Theophrastus; species downy- 
hoary when young). Including Phalacroloma and Polyac- 
tidiwm. ORD. Composite. A genus comprising about a 
hundred species of hardy annuals, biennials, or perennials, 
resembling Aster, but having the ray-florets in several 
series. In Britain, it is represented by the perennial 
E. alpinus, a pretty rock plant found in the Breadalbane 
and Clova Mountains; the annual or biennial E. acris; and 
the annual E. canadense, a troublesome weed in some 
places. 'They are found everywhere in cold and moun- 
lainous regions, and are of very easy culture in common 
garden soil. Few species are worth growing. Those 
enumerated below form subjects for mixed | 
borders, in a somew -drained si i 
. They may be readily increased 
E. caucasicus (Caucasian) /.-heads scarcely lin. across, rosy- 
pus borne in loose masses on stems nearly 2ft. high. Summer. 
., radical ones spathulate; cauline ones ligulate, stem-clasping. 
h. lft. Caucasus, 1821. Perennial. 
glabellus (smooth-leaved). fl.-heads large, one to seven on ` 
the leafless summit of the stout stems ; ray-florets very numerous, 
purple; disk yellow. June. J. nearly glabrous, except the mar- 
gins, entire; the upper oblong-lanceolate and pointed, closely 
sessile or partly clasping ; the lower spathulate, stalked. k. біп 
to 18in. North United States. Perennial. 
Fic. 728. ERIGERON GLAUCUS. 
laucous).* fl.-heads purple, pretty. 
autumn. лгу glaucous, clammy; radical 
winged stalks; cauline ones sessile, entire. A. 
Western North America, 1812. Perennial. See 
rge-flowered).* jl.-heads 
эз, Же summer, 
E. grandifiorus 
- хараат large, solitary. 
obovate- ulate ; cauline ones oblong to. 
8in. Rocky Mountains, 1819. Perennial E 
E. multiradiatus (many-rayed).* JL-heads 
about 2in. across, str ona  nümerous, 
jenes: тау-йогош purplish; disk gelo. Summer. 7 oblong, 
toothed, tapering into a long stalk, Л. om. d : 
1880, (b. M. 6530.) Ne E 
terminal, solitary, 
overlapping linear 
; 'wy* fl,-heads 2in. across, disposed in a loose 
onn c оге Minish-purple; disk yellow. Summer. - l 
oblong-spathulate, smooth, ciliated. Л. 4in. to 8in. Himalayas. 
narrow; those 
i 10wy)* JL-heads large, han s 
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