OBSERVATIONS ON THE PLANT 



CALLED 



ERICA DABOECIA, 



SHEWING THE NECESSITY OF REFERRING IT TO A 



DIFFERENT GENUS AND ORDER. 



By PROF. JUSSIEU* 



TOURNEFORT was the firft who pointed out 

 this vegetable, under the name of Erica caniabrica 

 flore maxmo, foliis Myrti subtus incams>\ and de- 

 scribed it as a plant with a low and woody stem, 

 Hot unlike that of a heath, to which, as far as 

 general habit, it bears great resemblance. Rayj 

 afterwards mentioned it under the same generic 

 name, adding, that by the inhabitants of Ireland 

 it was called St. Dabeoc's heath. Linnaeus, to 

 whom the plant was but imperfectly known from 



* Annales du Museum National l r . Cahier, i8oz. 

 •f Instit. rei herb. pag. 603. 

 \ Dendrologia, pag. 98. 



