CHAP. VII.] ERICACE^. 109 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE ORDER ERICACE.E : ILLUSTRATED BY THE COMMON OR 

 BESOM HEATH, THE MOOR HEATH, CAPE HEATHS, LING OR 

 HEATHER, ANDROMEDA, LYONIA, ST.^DAB^OC's HEATH, ARBU- 

 TUS, THE BEARBERRY, GAULTHERIA, CLETHRA, RHODODEN- 

 DRON, INDIAN OR CHINESE AZALEAS, YELLOW AZALEA, AME- 

 EICAN AZALEAS, RHODORAK, ALMIA, MENZIESIA, LOISELEURIA, 

 LEDUM, LEIOPHYLLUM, THE BILBERRY, THE WHORTLE- 

 BERRY, THE CRANBERRY, PYROLA, AND MONOTROPA. 



The name of Ericaceae, which most people 

 are aware signifies the Heath family, conjures 

 up immediately the image of a number of 

 narrow-leaved plants, with globular, ventricose, 

 or bell-shaped flowers ; and we are apt at first 

 to think that the family is so natural a one, as 

 to require very little explanation. Did the 

 order include only the Heaths, this would be the 

 case, for all the Heaths, different as they are in 

 some particulars, may be recognised at a glance : 

 but as the order includes the Rhododendrons, 

 Azaleas, and Kalmias, besides several other 

 plants which have not so strong a family like- 

 ness to each other as the Heaths, it becomes 

 necessary to say a few words on the botanical 

 resemblances which connect them together. The 

 first, and most striking, of these is the shape of 

 the anthers, each of which appears like two 



