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32. Erica Gnaphaloides; Soft- leaved Heath. Corollas 

 ovate, covered ; style included; stigma four-parted. It is a 

 gmall smooth shrub, of a cinereous brown colour, erect, ;i span 

 high ; branches and branchlets dichotomous and tricliotonious, 

 filiform, from erect spreading-, fastigkite; leaves ovate, entire, 

 smooth, Hat above, convex beneath, with a longitudinal groove, 

 pressed close, the length of the internodes forming: as it were 

 jointed branchlets, a line, and a half in length; flowers termi- 

 nating, about three together, purple. Native of the Cape. 



33. Erica Corifolia ; Slender-twigged Heath. Flowers 

 urabelled ; calices turbinate ; corollas ovate ; style included. 

 Stem shrubby, compound ; calix spreading, with ovate, pur- 

 ple leaflets ; corollas purple ; stigma headed. It flowers in 

 August, and is a native of the Cape. 



34. Erica Articularis ; Jointed Heath. Corollas ovate, acu- 

 minate; style included, longer than the calix. Flowers race- 

 med, pedunclcd; corolla bell-shaped, white; style daikpurple. 

 Native of the Cape. 



35. Erica Calicina ; Calicined Heath. Calices spreading 

 very much, wheel-shaped; corollas ovate; style included. 

 Calix and bracte white ; corolla yellow ; leaves three-sided ; 

 bractes alternate. Native of the Cape. 



36. Erica Cinerea ; Fine-leaved Heath. Corollas ovate ; 

 style a little standing out; stigma capitate. Root perennial, 

 woody ; stems shrubby, about a foot high, with opposite 

 branches; the bark ash-coloured; leaves linear, fleshy, 

 spreading above, smooth and shining, transversely wrinkled, 

 towards the end beset with a few scattered hairlike points ; 

 beneath having a longitudinal furrow, which is white from a 

 woolliness apparent to the magnifier; the edge somewhat 

 membranaceous, and when viewed with the microscope, ap- 

 pearing serrulate ; the leaves when young have three flat 

 sides, but when full-grown are nearly flat. Flowers in long, 

 clustered, whorled, terminating spikes, sonorous when struck ; 

 they come out from the sides of the young shoots; those from 

 the end-shoots are near each other, but scattered and bare ; 

 those from the small lateral branches generally in pairs ; 

 peduncles shorter than the flowers, purplish-brown, somewhat 

 downy, the lower nodding, the upper upright, with a bracte 

 about the middle ; corolla three times as long as the calix, 

 bluish-purple, shrivelling, and turning of a fawn colour, the 

 clefts very shallow. It flowers from June to August, and is 

 a native of all parts of Europe, except the extreme southern 

 and northern regions ; and is also found in the Levant. It 

 may be applied to the same purposes as the Common Heath; 

 and the flowers are much more showy. For its propagation 

 and culture, see the first species. 



37. Erica Paniculata ; Panided Heath. Flowers minute ; 

 corollas bell-shaped; style standing out. This is a shrub, 

 with linear upright leaves, almost even ; flowers purple, very 

 small, as are also the calices and peduncles ; and are so 

 abundant as to cover the whole plant. It flowers from Feb- 

 ruary to April. Native of the Cape. 



38. Erica Australis ; Spanish Heath. Leaves spreading; 

 corollas cylindric; style standing out. This is an upright 

 rigid shrub, with an ash-colourod bark ; leaves in threes or 

 fours, linear, obtuse, somewhat rugged on the edge ; flowers 

 terminating, two or three subsessile ; calix rude, acute, 

 keeled, imbricate with similar bractes; corolla scarcely club- 

 shaped, obtuse, three times as long as the calix ; the segments 

 becoming hoary. It flowers in April and May. Native of 

 Spain and Portugal. See the twelfth species. 



Leaves in fours. 



39. Erica Physodes ; Expanded Heath. Flowers sub- 

 solitary; corollas ovate, inflated; style included. Leaves 

 patulous, broad-linear, keeled ; calix ovate, smooth, colour- 



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ed, one-third of the length of the corolla, which is the size 

 of a pea, and viscid. The flowers are at the ends of the 

 branches in a soil of umbel. Native of the Cape. 



40. Erica Empetiifolia ; Crowbe\-ry -leaved Heath. Flowers 

 sessile, lateral ; corollas ovate. Stem brown, rugged, a foot 

 high ; branches in whorls like the stem, flexuose, erect; 

 branchlets trichotomous and dichotomous like the branches ; 

 leaves in sixes, oblong, obtuse, incurved, above three-cor- 

 nered, flat, beneath grooved, rugged, especially underneath, 

 very finely ciliate, imbricate, a line in length ; flowers aggre- 

 gate, in whorls in the middle and at the ends of the branch- 

 lets ; calicine leaflets lanceolate, ciliate, blood-red ; corolla 

 ovate, bell-shaped, hairy, rough at bottom, blood-red ; style 

 purple, curved, twice as long as the corolla, with the headed 

 stigma standing out. It flowers in April and May. Native 

 of the Cape. 



41. Erica Cernua ; Drooping Heath. Flowars ovate, capi- 

 tate; calices ciliate ; antherse included. The whole plant is 

 smooth, brown, erect, afoot in height; branches scattered in 

 threes, filiform, flexuose, erect; leaves ovate, obtuse, ciliate, 

 flat above, convex beneath, grooved, imbricate ; flowers termi- 

 nating, drooping. Native of the Cape. 



42. Erica Retorta ; Crook-leaved Heath. Leaves recurv- 

 ed ; corollas ovate-oblong ; style of a middling length. Stem 

 frutescent, somewhat rugged, determinate^ branched; leaves 

 ovate-oblong, terminated by a little bristle, convex above, 

 smooth, shining; flowers terminating, corymbed, subsessile ; 

 calix red, lanceolate, with an awn at the end; corolla long, 

 inflated, viscid, with a globular throat, and a four-parted 

 acuminate short border; filamenta linear, membranaceous. 

 Native of the Cape. 



43. Erica Margaritacea ; Pearl-flowered Heath. Corolla 

 pitcher-bell-shaped ; style of a middling length. Flowers ter- 

 minating, four or eight from the uppermost axils ; peduncles 

 filiform, shorter than the leaves; bractes linear, three in num- 

 ber ; corolla white; tube pitcher-shaped, a little longer than 

 the calix ; segments of the border obtuse, patulous; filamenta 

 white, shorter than the tube, bent in at the tip; antheree 

 ovate, compressed, brown, two-partad ; germen red, having 

 eight little knobs at top; style the length of the corolla, whi- 

 tish ; stigma headed, flat beneath, convex above, commonly 

 four-lobed. This is a very pretty plant when laden with its 

 pearly blossoms, which appear in May and June. Native 

 of the Cape. 



*** Antheree awnless, included; Leaves opposite. 



44. Erica Tenuifolia; Small-leaved Heath. Corolla and 

 calix blood-red. The whole stem is smooth, erect, a span 

 high ; branches and branchlets filiform and capillary, erect; 

 leaves opposite, lanceolate, smooth, convex beneath, with a 

 slender groove, pressed close; flowers terminating, umbelled. 

 in threes; calicine leaflets equalling the corolla, keeled; 

 flowers blood-red; style included. Native of the Cape. 



45. Erica Passerinse. Passerine Heath. Corollas bell- 

 sliaped; style standing out, (according to Thunberg, included.) 

 Flowers solitary, terminating, peduncled ; peduncles white, 

 tomuntose, generally longer than the flowers; calix bell-shaped, 

 bluntish, four-parted, with ovate leaflets ; filamenta the short- 

 est of any; germen white, tomentose ; stigma subcapitate. 

 This has the herb of Passerina Ericoides, not to he distin- 

 guished from it ; insomuch that Passerina Ericoidea has 

 entirely the herb of an Erica, with the flowers of Passeiina. 

 This is an instance of the intermixture of genera, which is not 

 uncommon in the Cape plants. Native of the Cape. 



Leaves in threet. 



46. Erica Albens ; White Heath. Racemes pointing one 

 way; corollas ovate-oblong, acute. Stem fiutescent. with 



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