CALLUNA VULGARIS, A NATIVE. 35 



speak,) and was the type of the genus of Linnaeus. When the many other 

 Ericas were discovered, it was found that they differed slightly botanically 

 from the Calluna, but all had been claaeed as Erica, and as the Calluna was 

 but one, it was easier and productive of less confusion to change one than 

 many, so the original Erica became Calluna. 



The distinction between Erica and Calluna is well preserved in the English 

 words Heath and Heather. 



C. vulgaris. Common Ling, 



C. vulgaris. Hull, v. ] , p. 1 14. Hook. Scot. 1 19. 



Erica vulgaris. Linn. Sp. PI. .=501. Willd. v. 2, 373. 



Fl. Br. 417. Engl. Bot. v. 15, t. 1013. Curt. Lond. fasc. 5, t. 30. 



Rail Syn. 470. Bull Fr. t. 341. Fl. Dan. t. 677. Ger. Em. 1380, f. Ehrh. 

 PI. Off. 173. 



E. n. 1012. Hall. Hist. v. 1,432. 



Erica Matth. Valgr. v. 1, 137, f. Camer. Epit. 75, f. 



Trag. Hist. 952, f. Fuchs. Hist. 254, f. 



B. E. vulgaris hirsuta. Ruii Syn. 471. Don. H. Br. 56. 



E. ciliaris. Huds. ed. 1, 114. Not of Linnaeus. 



Common everywhere on dry moors, heaths and open barren wastes; as well 

 as in woods where the soil is sandy or turfy. 



Shrub. June, July. 



Stems bushy, repeatedly and irregularly branched. Leaves deep green, 

 minute, sessile, acute, keeled, somewhat arrow-shaped, closely imbricated on 

 the young branches, making a quadrangular figure, like a close-beaten chain ; 

 they are generally smooth, but in B densely hoary all over. 



Fl. stalked, drooping in longish unilateral clusters, soon overtopped by leafy 

 shoots. 



Inner calyx, which is the most conspicuous part of the flower, of a shining 

 permanent rose color. 



Cor. paler and much shorter. 



Anth. not reaching beyond the corolla. Style longer. 



There is a white-flowered variety ; and a very beautiful double red one, 

 cultivated in gardens, whose flowers, from a copious multiplication of the 

 corolla, resemble little roses. 



In treating of the Calluna, Smith gives no geography; but in the next sec- 

 tion, when writing upon the Erica, he remarks, " No species is wild in 

 America." 



On Saturday, July 13th, the attention of the writer was first called to the 

 plant exhibited at the weekly show of the Massachusetts Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, by Jackson Dawson, a young gardener, of Cambridge. The plant was 

 exhibited in a pot, and was apparently about six to ten years old, about half a 

 foot in diameter, and the same in height ; it was in full bloom, though the 

 flowers were white rather than pink, caused by its having been kept from the 



