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ERICA 



ERIGERON 



1414. A form of Erica 

 persoluta. 



19. formdsa, Thunb. (E. grandinosa, Hort.). Erect 

 shrub, 1-2 ft., the branches hairy, covered with Ivs. in 

 whorls of 3: Ivs. glossy, channeled, the younger ciliate, 

 about \y<i lines long: fls. in 3's, the corolla white, with 

 8 longitudinal channels, 

 sticky. Andr. Heathery 265. 



20. melanthera, Linn. 

 Fig. 1415. Lvs. thick, ob- 

 tuse, grooved on the back, 

 younger ones often rough, 

 with glands; bracts mostly 

 crowded: fls. rosy; sepals 

 obovate, keeled, colored ; 

 anthers black; ovary villous. 

 Not L.B.C. 9:867, which 

 may be a form of E. nigrita. 

 Flowers in Dec. and Jan. 

 A.F. 11:1133; 12:579; 

 29:1079. F.E. 9:333. C. 

 L.A. 9:169; 15:170. G.M. 

 49:56. 



21. fragrans, Andr., not 

 Salisb. Lvs. opposite, erect- 

 appressed, acute, always 

 glabrous; bracts loose, sepal- 

 Eke: fls. in 2's; sepals ovate, 

 keeled, green ; ovary gla- 



rous or slightly bristly at the tip. B.M. 2181. L.B.C. 

 3:288. 



The following are mostly kinds that have been grown suc- 

 cessfully in small quantities in this country but appear not to 

 be advertised in American trade catalogues. H=hard-wooded ; 

 the rest are soft-wooded. S. Afr., unless stated. Aside from these, 

 E. scoparia, Linn., of S. Eu., is sometimes listed: 2-3 ft., glabrous: 

 Ivs. in 3's: fls. greenish, in 1-sided racemes; calyx-lobes about half 

 the length of the subglobose corolla. E. capensis also appears, but 

 it is apparently only a catalogue name. 



E. ampullacea, Curt. Lvs. ciliate, mucronate: bracts colored; 

 fls. mostly in 4's; corolla ventricose, very sticky, typically white, 

 lined with red; limb spreading, white. Var. riibra is the only form 

 cult. B.M. 303. L.B.C. 6:508. H. E. arbdrea var. alpina, W. I. 

 Beau. An alpine variety, grown only at Kew. It is a stiff erect 

 bush with tiny white fls. in plume-like clusters. Gn. 75, p. 384. E. 

 aristata, Andr. Readily distinguished by the long bristle which 

 ends the Ivs.: Ivs. recurved: fls. in 4's; sepals keeled with red; corolla 

 sticky, 1 in. long, ventricose, but with not so long and narrow a 

 neck as in E. ampullacea. B.M. 1249. L.B.C. 1:73. H. E. 

 barbata, Andr. Bristly and glandular - pubescent : Ivs. in 4's: 

 corolla urn-shaped, villous; ovary villous. L.B.C. 2:124. E. 

 Bowieana, Lodd. Lvs. in 4's to 6's: infl. axillary; corolla tubular, 

 slightly inflated; limb erect or scarcely open. L.B.C. 9:842. 

 E. Burnettii, Hort. Hybrid. F.S. 8:845. E. Cavend.ishid.na, Hort. 

 (E. Cavendishii, Hort.). Hybrid of E. depressaxE. Patersonii. 

 Lvs. in 4's, margins revolute: fls. in 2's to 4's; corolla tubular; sta- 

 mens included; anthers awned. P.M. 13:3. G.C. 1845, p. 435; 

 11.18:213; 20:597. F.S. 2:142. A.F. 12:1143. Gng. 5:331. 

 C.L.A. 7:180. G. 6:489; 10:243. E. conspicua, Soland., is a 

 species with club-shaped, villous fls. and villous Ivs. in 4's. Var. 

 splendens, Klotzsch, with the Ivs. and sepals shining green and 

 pubescent corollas, includes E. elata, Andr. L.B.C. 18:1788. E. 

 cylindrica, Andr. and Hort. Important hybrid of unknown parent-" 

 age, cult, since 1800. Lvs. in 4's: fls. nearly sessile; corolla 1 in. 

 long, brilliant rosy red, with a faint circle of dull blue about two- 

 thirds of the way from the base; anthers awned, included; ovary 

 glabrous. L.B.C. 18: 1734. R.H. 1859, p. 42. Fls. very showy and 

 unusually long. The oldest E. cylindrica. That of Wendland is a 

 yellow-fld. species unknown to cult. E. Devoniana, Hort. Hybrid. 

 Fls. rich purple. H. E. elata, Andr.= E. conspicua var. splen- 

 dens. E. Irbyana, Andr. Allied to E. ampullacea, but with 

 corolla narrower at the base and tapering with perfect regularity 

 to just below the limb, where it has a prominent red bulge. It 

 is also distinctly lined with red, and the sepals are green, although 

 the bracts are colored, as in E. ampullacea. L.B.C. 9:816. H. 

 E. nigrescens is presumably E. melanthera (H. D. Darlington). 

 E. pdllida. A confused name. The oldest plant of this name 

 is Salisbury's, which has an urn-shaped corolla, fls. often in 

 3's, pubescent and hirsute branches and Ivs. in 3's. L.B.C. 1 : 72 

 (as E. pura). E. pdttida of the trade is probably the tubular-fld. 

 hybrid of Loddiges in L.B.C. 14:1355, which has axillary and 

 terminal fls., and Ivs. in 4's to 6's. E, perspicua., Wendl., has a 

 tubular or slightly club-shaped corolla, Ivs. in 4's, pubescent or 

 rough-hairy, and fls. in 1's to 3's, but the plant in the trade is 

 probably E. perspicuoides, Forbes, a hybrid, with longer and 

 woollier hairs, fls. somewhat in umbels, nearly 1 in. long. Only var. 

 ertcta is grown here. E. Syndriana is grown by Louis Dupuy. 

 E. translucens, Andr. Perhaps the first of all the garden hybrids 

 between E. tubiflpra and E ventricosa. Lvs. rigid, with or without 

 long, soft, red hairs: fls. in umbel-like heads; bracts remote; corolla 

 rosy, 8-9 lines long; tube narrowly ventricose, pubescent limb 

 short, spreading; ovary sessile. Andr. Heaths, 295. Bentham 

 considers this a synonym of E. spuria, Andr. Heaths. 60. Schultheis 



says "it is the finest erica grown; a poor propagator but good grower. 

 Takes 3 months to root." E. tricolor is perhaps the most confused 

 name in the genus, and apparently one of the important kinds 

 abroad, where it has many varieties and synonyms. In the trade 

 it seems to stand for a handsome heath, with Ivs. in 4's, distinctly 

 ciliate and terminated by a bristle: fls. in umbels of 8-10, 1 in. long, 

 a little too inflated at the base for the typical tubular form, rosy 

 at the base, then white, then green, and then suddenly constricted 

 into a short neck; pedicels red and exceptionally long. This descrip- 

 tion is from L.B.C. 12:1105 (as E. eximia), one of the earliest 

 pictures of these charming hybrids which Bentham refers to the 

 hybrid E. aristella, Forbes. E. Wilmorei, Knowles & Westc. (E. 

 Wilmoreana and Vilmoreana, Hort.). Hybrid: corolla tubular, 

 bulged below the lobes, slightly velvety-hairy: fls. in 1's to 3's, 

 rosy, tipped white. R.H. 1892, p. 202. A.F. 4:251. G.C. III. 

 19:201. A.G. 21:869. Var. glauca, Carr., has nearly glaucous 

 foliage. Var. calyculdta, Carr., has a large additional calyx. R.H. 

 1892, p. 203. WlLHELM MlLLER. 



N. TAYLOR.f 



ERIGENIA (Greek, spring-born). Umbelliferse. HAR- 

 BiNGER-OF-SpRiNG. A monotypic genus of E. N. Amer. 

 E. bulbdsa, Nutt., is low (4-10 in.), nearly stemless, 

 hardy, from a deep-lying tuber, with ternately decom- 

 pound Ivs. and small umbels of minute white fls. A 

 few plants may have been sold by collectors and 

 dealers in native plants, but it is not a cult, plant. It 

 grows in rich deciduous woods and clearings. 



ERIGERON (Greek, old man in spring; some of the 

 early kinds are somewhat hoary). Composite. FLEA- 

 BANE. Hardy border plants, suggesting native asters, 

 but blooming much earlier, growing in tufts like the Eng- 

 lish daisy, though usually from 9 inches to 2 feet high. 



Stem-lvs. entire or toothed : fls. solitary, or in corymbs 

 or panicles; rays in 2 or more series, mostly rose, violet 

 or purple, rarely cream-colored or white, and one kind 

 has splendid orange fls. ; involucre bell-shaped or hemi- 

 spheric, the bracts narrow, nearly equal, in 1 or 2 series, 

 differing from Aster in which the bracts are in many 

 series. About 150 species scattered over the world, 

 particularly in temperate and mountainous regions. 



The garden fleabanes are practically 

 all perennials. A few annuals are 

 harmless and pretty weeds. Some 

 species have roots that are biennial, 

 but they increase by offsets, and make 

 larger clumps from year 

 to year. They are of 

 easy culture. They do 

 best when somewhat 

 shaded from the mid- 

 day sun. They are 

 easily propagated by 

 seeds or division, and 

 doubtless by cuttings, if 

 there were sufficient de- 

 mand. Small, divided 

 plants set out in early 

 spring produce good- 

 sized flowering plants 

 the first year. A good 

 bloom may be had from 

 sown outdoors as early as possible 

 in spring. Some fine masses of 

 these plants in the hardy border 

 or wild garden are much more 



desirable than an isolated speci- 1415. Erica melanthera. 

 men or two of each kind. The 



most popular species is E. speciosus. At present it is 

 the best kind that has the rich soft colors, from rose to 

 violet and purple. E. aurantiacus has dazzling orange 

 flowers, and is unique in the genus. 



show 



seeds 



alpinus, 8. 

 arizonicus, 10. 

 asper, 10. 

 aurantiacus, 1. 

 bellidifqlius, 14. 

 Coulteri, 5. 

 glabellus, 10. 

 glaucus, 7. 



INDEX. 



grandiflorus, 6. 

 Howellii, 3. 

 hybridus roseus, 11. 

 macranthus, 9. 

 major, 6. 

 mucronatus, 4. 

 ochroleucus, 2. 

 philadelphicus, 12. 



pulchellus, 14. 

 roseus, 6. 

 Roylei, 8. 

 salsuginosus, 13. 

 semperflorens, 7. 

 speciosus, 6. 

 supcrbus, 6. 

 Villarsii, 11. 



