I02 FLOWERS OF THE HEATHS AND MOORS 



There are 8 anthers on long filaments springintj from the base of 

 the ovary. At the end of each are two cells, which are spreading, 

 with an oval aperture below, which, however, does not allow the pollen 

 to escape, as each cell at the aperture rests against the next anther 

 cell, which acts as a sort of cap, the whole series forming a ring round 

 the corolla. The anther-cells are also armed with two horn-like pro- 

 cesses which stick out like the spokes of a wheel. The anthers reach 

 just below the sticky stigma. When an insect visits the flower for the 

 honey it rubs against the stigma first with its head, which in a previous 

 flower was dusted with pollen, and it also, in pushing its proboscis 

 down the tube, pierces the chcvanx de frisc of anther processes, and 

 these release the pollen in the bo.\es and shower it upon the visitor's 

 head, ready for the next visit as it were. But if insects do not visit 

 the flower the pollen, when discharged from these bo.xes, falls on the 

 stigma, which is in the fall line. 



Amongst the insect visitors are Honey-bees, Bonibus, Nomada, 

 Volucella. 



The capsule splits open from above, allowing the seeds to fall out 

 or be blown away by the wind. 



Cross-leaved Heath is a humus-loving plant, and almost confined 

 to a humus soil. 



Several beetles live upon it, Harpalus discoidats, Coccinella hicro- 

 glyphica, C. distincta, ByrrJuis micriincs, Elata' saiigitinolcnta, Halfica 

 ericcii, and several Hymenoptera, Aliscop/ins coiico/or, CoUctcs succincti, 

 Halictjis pinictatissiniiis, Andrena fnscipcs, A. argentata, A. hicens; 

 Lepidoptera, Fo.\ Moth [Lasiocaiiipa riibi), Sa/iii-aia paz'Oiiia, Heath 

 Rustic {Ap-o//s agathina), True Lover's Knot (.-7. porphyrcd). Gray 

 Rustic (^Noctiia iicglecld), &c. ; several Heteroptera, Myninis niiri- 

 fonnis, Berytits crassipcs, A^ysiiis lincahis, Ischnoyliynchus geiiiinatns, 

 Ischnocoris angustuliis, iMacrodaiia micropteriun, Scolopostethus dcco- 

 rafus, &c.; Homoptera, Cixiiis sitni/is, Ulopa reticulata, ^Ithysauus 

 russeo/ns, Rhiiiocola ericcr. 



Erica, Dioscorides, is from the Greek ereikc, heath, and Tctralix 

 from the arrangement of the leaves in fours. 



The Cross-leaved Heath is called Bell-heath, Bell-heather, Broom- 

 heath, Cat-heather, Crow Ling, Grig, Hather, Heath, Bell, Besom, 

 Broom, Father-of- Heath, Heather Bell, Carlin, Ringe Heather, Honey 

 Bottle, Ling. This plant was called Ringe Heather because it was 

 used for making rings or wisps made of Heather. Though called 

 Besom Heather in Ray's day it was not used for besoms, "that ever 

 I saw, nor is fit for such a use ". 



