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ERICA MONADELPHA. MONADELPHOUS 
HEATH. 
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2 NASER aaa 
 Clafs and Order. 
OcTANDRIA MonocyYNia. 
_ Generic Chara€fer. 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta. 
Anthere bifide. Cap/. 4-locularis: diffepimenta e valvularum 
marginibus. aa : 
Specific Character and Synonym, 
ERICA monadelpha (Filamenta corolla longiora: anthera 
mutice) corollz limbi laciniis reflexis coloratis, 
antheris patentibus. 
ERICA Bankfia var. purpurea, Andrews Heaths, vol. 3. 
ies 
‘This beautiful and fingular Heath has a very near affinity 
with Erica Bankfii, and has not been taken up by Mr. 
Drvyanper in the new edition of the Hortus Kewenfis. It 
appears to us however to be very fufficiently diftin& from that 
{pecies, from which it differs in having the /imé of the corolla 
purple, inftead of white; ji/aments not the colour of the an- 
thers and more perfeétly united into a cylindrical tube; but 
more efpecially in that its anthers diverge fo as to make a 
radiated termination to the flower, inftead of conniving at the 
points as in E. Bankfii, This circumftance will make it ne- 
ceflary to add to the fpecific chara€ter of the latter antheris 
conniventibus. Unluckily thefe peculiarities militate againft 
the general charaéter of the fubdivifion under which Erica 
Bank/fii is, and of courfe E. monade/pha mutt be, arranged. 
This is not the Exrca monadelphia of ANDREWs and WiLL- 
DENOW, which is Erica furfurofa of Sartspury and the new 
. edition of the Hortus Kewenfis. The appellation is however 
much 
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