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OR, BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. 



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linear, minute, remote; calix scariose, mucous, a little shorter 

 than the corolla, ovate, acute ; corolla blunt ; antheree ovate, 

 short ; style short, cylindric ; stigma naked. Native of 

 the Cape. 



7. Erica Urceolaris ; Hairy-flowered Heath. Flowers um- 

 belled ; calices lanceolate ; corollas ovate-conical, villose ; 

 style included. Stem flexuose, erect, ash-coloured, two feet 

 hish ; branches opposite, or in threes, cinereous-villose, wand- 

 like ; branchlets filiform, scattered, frequent, wandlike ; leaves 

 in threes, linear-lanceolate, beneath grooved from the revo- 

 lute margins, tomentose, whitish, from erect spreading 1 , 

 curved a little: peduncle, calix, and corolla, hirsute ; calix 

 shorter by half than the corolla, which is flesh-coloured, 

 oblong, subcampanulate, and a line in length ; it varies with 

 flowers very hirsute and hairy, red and whitish flesh-colour. 

 It flowers in May and June. Native of the Cape. 



8. Erica Marifolia ; Marnm-leaved Heath. Leaves ovate, 

 pubescent, whitish underneath ; corollas ovate-conical ; style 

 of a middling length. It flowers in May and June. Native 

 of the Cape. 



9. Erica Bergiana ; Bergms's Heath. Calices reflex ; co- 

 rollas bell-shaped; style included. This shrub is about two 

 feet high, and pubescent; leaves linear, subciliate, erect; 

 flowers at the ends of the branchlets, subsolitary, on very 

 short peduncles; calix lanceolate, acute, one-third of the 

 corolla, spreading, or reflex; corolla shaped like that of the 

 Lily-of-the-valley, purple, blunt; stamina shorter than the 

 corolla; pistil the length of the corolla; stigma subcapitate. 

 It is covered with beautiful flowers. Found by Bergius at 

 the Cape. 



10. Erica Depressa ; Flat-stemmed Heath. Stem depressed ; 

 flowers few; corollas bell-shaped; style included. Stems 

 procumbent, copious, a palm in length; leaves lanceolate, 

 bluntish, even, keeled; flowers scattered, solitary; calix 

 scariose, lanceolate, acute, shorter by half than the corolla, 

 which is obtuse, red, and even ; antherse very short; stigma 

 blunt. Native of the Cape. 



1 1. Erica Pilulifera ; Rounded Heath. Flowers umbelled ; 

 corollas bell-shaped ; style included. The whole shrub is 

 smooth, purple, erect, a foot high or more; branches and 

 branchlets trichotomous, from erect spreading, subfastigiate ; 

 ler.ves in fours, obliquely whorled, three equal in situation, 

 the fourth lower, linear, obtuse, flat above, beneath convex, 

 with a deep longitudinal groove; the lower smooth, the upper- 

 most very finely ciliate, attenuated into paler petioles, imbri- 

 cate; flowers terminating, four to ten, drooping; peduncles 

 blood-red, longer than the leaves; calicine leaflets boat- 

 shaped, acute, pale, blood-red, smooth, ciliate at the tip, 

 pressed close, a little shorter than the corolla, which is 

 blood-red and smooth. The above is Thunberg's description. 



Native of the Cape. 



12. Erica Viridi-Purpurea ; Green-blue Heath. Flowers 

 scattered; corollas bell-shaped; style included. Leaves lan- 

 ceolate, smooth ; flowers in racemes, directed all the same 

 way; corolla purple. It varies with the leaves in fours. 

 Native of Portugal. This, and the 16th, 17th, 38th, 52d, 

 76th, 77th, 78th, 79th, 80th, and 82d species, which are 

 natives of the southern countries of Europe, will bear the 

 open air in England, when placed in a dry soil and a warm 

 situation. They may be increased and treated in the same 

 manner as our British Heaths, (see the first species;) and 

 may also be increased by layers and cuttings. 



13. Erica Pentaphylla ;' Five-leaved Heath. Flowers 

 pubescent; corollas bell-shaped ; style included. Native of 

 the Cape. 



14. Erica Nigrita; Black Heath Calices imbricate, 



three-flowered, sessile; corollas bell-shaped; style included. 

 Stem brown, upright, a foot high and more ; branches and 

 branchlets scattered, and whorled, flexnose, erect, wanillike, 

 ash-coloured, tomentose ; leaves linear, ovate, obtuse, very 

 finely rugged about the edge, flat above, convex beneath, 

 with a slender longitudinal groove, shining, pressed close at 

 the base, spreading, and recurved from the middle, a line in 

 length; flowrs terminating in threes, peduncled, erect; 

 bractes oblong, acute, keeled, white, approximating to the 

 calix, imbricate, shaped like the calicine leaflets, which are 

 ovate, acute, keeled, very finely rugged about the edge, 

 white, smooth, nearly equal to the corolla. This plant has 

 its trivial name from its conspicuous dark anthers, elegantly 

 contrasted with the white corolla and calix. Native of 

 the Cape. 



15. Erica Planifolia ; Smooth-leaved Heath. Leaves 

 spreading very much ; corollas bell-shaped ; style standing- 

 out. Branches filiform, creeping; flowers violet-coloured; 

 leaves ovate, acute, ciliate. Native of the Cape. 



16. Erica Scoparia; Small Green-flowered or Brush Heath. 

 Corollas bell-shaped ; stigma standing out, peltate. This is 

 a shrub, growing to the height of several feet. The leaves 

 soon fall off; and the branches are made into besoms, from 

 which circumstance it has derived its trivial name. It flowers 

 in April and May, and is common in the south of Europe. 

 See the twelfth species. 



17. Erica Arborea; Tree Heath. Branchlets hoary; co- 

 rollas bell-shaped; style standing out. This is an upright 

 shrub, growing to the height of six feet, with upright 

 branches, covered with a white nap; leaves very abundant, 

 upright, smooth, almost awl-shaped, covering the branches, 

 wrinkled when dry; flowers very numerous on the middle of 

 the branches, so that the latter leaves are above them; they 

 are on branching peduncles, forming a panicle; calix single, 

 short, with lanceolate leaflets; corolla white, short, broad, 

 four-cleft two-thirds of the way. It flowers from February 

 to May. Native of the south of Europe, and the island ot 

 Madeira. See the twelfth species. 



18. Erica Vespertina; Evening Heath. Corollas bell- 

 shaped ; style standing out. This is an upright shrub, with 

 the branches growing by threes ; leaves triquetrous, even, 

 pressed close; flowers in a panicle, nodding, alternate, white, 

 on white pubescent peduncles, with ovate, alternate, whito 

 bractes; leaflets of the calix ovate, keeled, sharpish, the 

 length of the tube; corolla double the length of the calix, 

 broad, sharp ; anther black, two-parted, above the throat ; 

 style purpurascent, rather longer than the corolla; stigma 

 blunt. Found by Thunberg at the Cape. 



19. Erica Cruenta ; Bloody -flowered Heath. Leaves 

 smooth; bractes remote ; calices awl-shaped, dilated at the 

 base; corollas cylindrical, incurved; style standing- out. 

 Branches round, smooth; branchli ,-ts pubescent; leaves linear, 

 awl-shaped, grooved, spreading, half an inch long, on ap- 

 pressed petioles, scarcely half a line in length ; flowers axil- 

 lary; peduncles hardly half an inch long, sometimes biticl or 

 trifid ; bractes three, awl-shaped, three-sided; leaflets of the 

 calix keeled, smooth, two lines in length; flowers axillary; 

 corolla deep crimson, an inch long, a little bent in, smooth, 

 subpellucid, a little swelling at top, with a four-cleft mouth ; 

 segments sharpish, broad, suberrct; filaments whitish ; au- 

 tberse included, oblong, brown, bifid; awns subulate, capil- 

 lary, the length of the antherse ; style a little longer than the 

 corolla, red; stigma standing out, incrassated, very dark 

 purple. It flowers at various seasons. Native of the Cape. 



Leaves in fours. 



20. Erica Ramentacea ; Slender-branched Heatli. Loaves 



