PI ex, cal. 36. ERICIN^. 158. Gypsocallis. 39^ 



Heaths in Cornwall; shrubby; July and August. 

 S^em much branched, upright ; leaves tviangu\a.r ; corolla 

 flesh-colour. 



V. 159. CALLUNA. R. A. Salisbury. Li?ig. 

 Calyx 4-parted, nearly as long as the corolla; corolla 



tubular, bellshape, 4-cut ; stamens 8 ; anthers awned, opening 

 by 2 pores ; stigma 4-lobed ; capsule 4-ceiIed, 4-valved ; 

 dehiscence septifragal. — Stem shrubby; leaves opposite, 

 squarrose, in 4f xow&i flowers racemose, facing oneway, 

 iirooping; hractece !•, at the base of the calyx. 



Calluna sagittcEfolia. Arrowleaved ling. 



Leaves arrowshape. 



Erica vulgaris, i2aH Sj/n. 470, 1 ; ParA;. 1480. 

 Erica vulgaris, sive putnila, Gar. em. 1380, I. 

 Erica sa^ittsefolia, Stokes Bot. M. M. 371. 

 Calluna Erica, DeCandolle Fl. Gall. 680. 

 Common heath or ling. Heather, 



Heaths and woods; shrubby; June and July. 



Stem ascending ; flowers flesh-colour or white. — Young 

 tops brewed along with half as much malt into a good beer; 

 decoction tans leather and dyes alummed vvool yellow. 

 Honey, where it abounds, has a reddish cast. The plant 

 is also used for binding mud cottages, for thatching, for 

 making ropes, for brooms, for firing, for filling drains, and 

 for beds, being confined in a frame with the flowering tops 

 uppermost. 



(3. hirsuta. Leaves downy. 



Erica vulgafis hirsuta, Raii Syn. 471, 2; Ger, em. 1380, 2. 

 Erica vulgaris hirsutior, Park. 1480, 

 Erica ciliaris, Iluds. Fl. Angl. ed. 1, 144. 



VI. 160. ANDROMEDA. Linnseus. , Andromeda, 

 Calyx very small, 5-parted; corolla ovate, bellied, 5-cut; 



limb reflected; stamsjis 10; anthers 2, horned above, opening 

 in 2 foramens; capsule 5-celled, 5-valved; dehiscence locu- 

 licidal. — Stem shrubby ; leaves perennial, alternate, edge- 

 turned over ; flowers aggregated, terminal ; peduncles brac- 

 teated at bottom. 



Andromeda poUfolia. Many-leaved andromeda. 



Leaves alternate, lanceolate, edge turned over; peduncles 

 terminal, aggregated ; corolla ovate. 



