ERIV'CA LAMBERTIA'NA. 
Var. Rubescens: 
MR. LAMBERT’S > stead HEATH. 
diay: 
EXOGENS, oR Soortaneits. 
Natural division 
to which 
this Plant a 
NATURAL ORDER, ERICACE, 
Artificial vn) OCTANDRIA, 
to which MONOGYNIA, 
this Plant betes | OF LINNEUS. 
No. 163: 
GENUS. Erica. Linwzvs. Catyx equalis profunde quadrifidus vel se- 
pius quadripartitus. Coroxza tubulosa, hypocrat teriformis urceolata campan- 
ulata vel globosa, limbo brevi quadrifido erecto recurvo, revoluto vel stellato- 
Rerent® : Stamina octo rarius sex vel septem, : sub disco p hyenas seepe gland- 
uloso inserta. Fria A libera vel rarissime submonadelpha. ANTHERZ 
terminales vel ‘aterales dd: insertionem filamenti calcaribus duobus subulatis 
vel mutice. Ovantom quadrilocalare ' vel tarias cctéloculare 
loculis plarioraatis Sriema 
daw ey ae 
CALYCIFLORZ®, ayy 
OF Se 
cs 
DECANDOLLE. 
oe | 1 2 32° 3 ae — 
in foealis plurima, placentis axilibus. Fruticrs Europe vel maxima parte 
Austro-Africane. Fortra a rarius sparsa. PEDIcELLI uniflori axil- 
lares vel terminales bi-tribracte 
HYBRIDA. Er AMB ANA. (AnprEWs.) Fottts 3-4-nis subreflexo- 
patentibus 1ineasibGs ‘sb eils rigidis glabris, floribus irregulariter axillaribus 
ae ea pedicellatis, neectne uncer ihe remotis, sepalis lato- ak ae 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Fieca: Cayx deeply eanaelt, or 
more frequently divided into four distinct sepals of equal size. Cor- 
OLLA tubular, salvershaped, pitcher-shaped, bell-shaped, or globular, 
with a short four-cleft limb, which is erect, recurved, rolled back, or 
spreading. STAMENS eight, rarely six +" seven, inserted under a 
hypogynous disk which is a? glandu FitaMENTs free or 
slightly monadelphous. ANTHERS terminal or lateral, with or with- 
out two subulate or crest-shaped appendages at the insertion of the 
filaments. Ovary four-celled, rarely eight-celled, each cell with many 
ovules. STyzeE filiform. Stiema capitate, or sometimes broad or 
peltate, entire or four-lobed. CapsuLe fear, or rarely eight-celled, 
splitting through the middle of the cells into as many valves, SEEps 
numerous in each cell, attached to central placente. 
DescrieTion oF Mr. Lampert’s nysrip Heatu. Stem erect, 
two or three feet high, stiff and branching. Leaves three, or some- 
times four in a whorl, spreading or reflexed, oblong, lin -, blunt, 
thick, flat above, marked underneath with a broad furrow, sinsbthe; the 
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