2C4 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Fraoch. Gciulis. 



In barren uncultivated foils and woods abundantly. 

 T?. Vl-VIII. 



Tiic leaves are tetragonal, and grow in four imbri 

 cated feries i the uppermoft have angles at tb 

 bafc like the barbs of an arrow : the flower: 

 grow in a thick fpike on one fide of the ftaik. 

 each fubtended by a faiall bracftea : the calyx re- 

 mains after the flower fades, and clofes over the 

 capfule for its lecurity. 



It varies fumetimes with hoary leaves. 



inerca 2, E- antheris bicornibus inclufis, coroliis ovatis race- 

 mofis, foliis ternis glabris linearibus. ^S^. pi. 501. 

 {Oed. Ban. t. 3S. c"^:. Ger. Em. i^Sz.f. 7.) 



Fine-leav'd Heath. AnzHs. Flather. Scoth. 



Fraoch. Gaulis. 



In uncultivated foils and woods the nnoft common 

 of allpiants. T? . VII-VIII. 



Fleath or Hather 13 apply'd to many ceconomical 

 purpoft-s a.nongu ihc HighlanS.ers : they fre- 

 quently cover their houfes with it inlfead of 

 thatch, or elfe t vvifl it into ropes, and bind down 

 the that'^h wirii them in a kind of lattice-v/ork : 

 in n:icft of the Wellern ifle. they dye their yarn 

 of a yellow color, by boihng it in water with 

 the green tops and flowers of this plant : in ^um^ 

 Skye, and the Long-Ijlwd, they frequently tan 

 their i-ather in a Itrong decoction of it ; for- 

 merly the young tops are laid to liave been ufed 

 alone to brew a kind of ale, and even now I was 



inform'd 



