COBOLLIFLOR^l. 79 



Stem branched, sharply angular. Leaves ovate, on short stalks, 

 smooth, with serrated margins. Flowers solitary, drooping, light 

 red, with a greenish tinge. Berries bluish-black. The berries 

 are very pleasant to the taste, and made into tarts and served up 

 with clotted cream would be pronounced delicious by the most 

 fastidious epicure. Plantations at Lindridge, near Bishop's 

 Teignton. Holne Chase. Ivybridge. Moor near Chagford. 

 (E. B. t. 456.) Sh. v. 



SUB-CLASS III. COKOLLIFLOB,^. (ORD. L.^LXVIII.) 

 A. Stamens free from the Corolla. (Ord. L.-LII.) 



OED. L. ERICACEAE. 

 ERICA. HEATH. 



1. E. Tetralix (cross-leaved H.) On heaths, downs, and 

 moors, common. Stem branched in its lower part and very 

 leafy. Leaves 4 in a whorl, linear or lanceolate, downy above, 

 becoming more distant towards the extremities of the twigs, and 

 leaving the space beneath the flowers bare. Flowers rose-coloured, 

 in a terminal drooping cluster. Milber Down. Forde bog, near 

 Newton. Bovey Heath, etc. (E. B. t. 1014.) Sh. YII. vm. 



2. E. cinerea (fine-leaved H.) On dry heaths and downs, 

 abundant. Plant with many upright stems. Leaves 3 in a 

 whorl, linear-lanceolate, flat above, with generally little bundles 

 of small leaves in then* axils. Flowers in long whorled clusters, 

 reddish-purple, drooping. Warberry Hill. Babbicombe. Mary- 

 church. Milber Down (with the white variety). (E. B. 1. 1015.) 

 Sh. YII. Yin. 



CALLUNA. LING. 



C. vulgaris (common L.} On dry heaths and moors, very 

 common. Low and straggling, seldom more than 1 foot high. 

 Leaves small and opposite, prolonged slightly at the base ; 

 flowers small, of a bluish-pink, drooping, sometimes approaching 

 to or quite white. Babbicombe Down. Milber Down. Bovey 

 Heath, etc. (E. B. t, 1013.) Sh. vi.-vm. 



