CLASS VIII. ORDER I.] ERICA. 561 



Withering, in his second edition, has named it E. didyma, from the 

 shape of the anther, a character not peculiar to the species. It is 

 re adily distinguished from the other of our native species by its bell- 

 shaped, not ovate corolla. 



*** Anthers without awns at the base, and inclosed within the corolla. 

 5. E. cilia'ris, Linn. (Fig. 639.) Ciliated Heath. Anthers without 

 awns, bifid, and rough, inclosed within the corolla ; style protruded ; 

 corolla ovate, inflated ; leaves ovate, three or four in a whorl, ciliated 

 with glandular hairs ; flowers in terminal one sided racemes. 



Hooker, British Flora, vol. i. p. 181. English Botany, Suppl. t. 

 2618. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 174. 



Root woody, fibrous. Stein erect or procumbent, and rooting at 

 the base, round, branched, leafy, downy, and scattered over with stout 

 hairs, terminated in a small gland, from one to two feet high. Leaves 

 scattered, and in whorls of three or four, ovate, with the margins rolled 

 back, and ciliated with stout glandular hairs, green above, pale beneath, 

 with a prominent mid-rib, and clothed with close pale hairs. Inflo- 

 rescence a terminal whorled one sided raceme, of large reddish purple 

 somewhat waxy looking flowers, each on a short hairy peduncle, with 

 two or four linear bracteas beneath the four-cleft calyx of liuear ciliated 

 segments. Corolla ovate, inflated, somewhat gibbous on the upper 

 side, contracted at the mouth with a short four-cleft limb of acute 

 teeth, sometimes downy. Stamens inclosed within the corolla, with 

 slender simple filaments, and the anthers of two separate conical lobes, 

 rough, with minute points, and opening on one side near the apex. 

 Style simple, longer than the corolla, thickened towards the top, the 

 stigma simple, obtuse. Capsule ovate, having eight furrows, four cells, 

 with double disseppiments, formed by the indexed margins of the 

 valves. Seeds numerous. 



Habitat. Boggy and dry ground; Cornwall, near Truro. The 

 Rev. J. S. Tozer, of Truro, 1828. Heath at Carclew, near Penryn, 

 and on a heath in the parish of St. Agnes, on the north coast of 

 Cornwall. Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. Furze-croft and Fir Planta- 

 tions, between Perran and Carclew Mylor, Cornwall. Miss Warren. 

 Corfe Castle, Dorset. W. E. Trevelyan, Esq. 

 Shrub ; flowering from June to August. 



This, our most beautiful species of Erica, is found also in the Southern 

 parts of France, but is most frequent in Spain and Portugal, where we 

 have seen it in the greatest profusion;^ is, in fact, by far the most 

 abundant species, especially in the northern parts of Portugal, growing 

 not only in boggy but dry sandy ground near the sea, and flowering 

 profusely. Its large racemes of beautiful waxy looking flowers of a 

 delicate purplish pink colour, are most elegant in appearance, and far 

 surpassing many of the species from the Cape of Good Hope. 



The genus Erica is the most extensive in our catalogue of plants, 

 amounting to between six and seven hundred known species, all of 



