FINE-LEAVED HEATH.— ^nm cinerea. j^y. 



Class OcTANDRiA. Order Monogynia. Nat. Ord. ERiCEiE. 

 Heath Tribe. 



There are five species of Heath, which, . 

 with the common Ling of our heathy and 

 moory lands, are inchided in the general name 

 of Heather. The species figured on our page 

 is, with the exception of the Ling, the most 

 common of them all, though the delicate rose- 

 coloured flowers of the cross-leaved Heath 

 {Erica tdralix) are, on many wide-spread 

 lands, as abundant as this. The last-named 

 flower is the badge of the Macdonalds, while 

 the species here represented is that of the Clan 

 Macalister. Then there is a heath which is 

 rare, but which has been found on the boggy 

 lands of Cunnemara in Ireland, covering a 

 space of at least two acres of land, and has 

 been called Mediterranean Heath. The two 

 remaining native kinds are found in some places 

 in Cornwall. 



The Heaths, whether found on the sandy 

 wilds of Africa, whence we have most of our 

 hothouse species, or on the black hills of the 

 '' Land of brown heath," alwavs indicate a 

 barren soil. Linnaeus observes, in his Flora 



No. 7. 



