margin occasionally somewhat cartilaginous and minutely toothed. 
PepuncLE£s solitary, or two or three together at the end of short lat- 
eral branches, so as frequently to appear axillary, three to six lines 
long, with three coloured bracts at some distance from the calyx. SeE- 
PALS broad, lanceolate, obtuse, coloured, slightly keeled at the top, 
clammy, about one third the length of the corolla. CoroLra about 
four lines long, thick and clammy, varying from pale red to nearly 
white, the tube nearly globular, the limb short, erect, with four round- 
ish very blunt divisions. Stamens and PisTIL included in the flower. 
FinaMENTs flattened. ANTHERS oblong, with two appendages, lance- 
olate, and toothed or hairy at the base, ending in a fine point. Ovary 
smooth 
Poputar AND GeocrapHicaL Notice. Our great Heath collec- 
tors, Mr. Niven and Mr. T. Masson, appear to have been the first to 
dedicate a species to Mr. Lambert, then already known as a great pat- 
ron of botany, and an intimate friend of Mr. Hibbert, on whose account 
Mr. Niven’s expedition was undertaken. The original herbaria, how- 
ever, of these collectors, show that they applied this name to several 
species which have been published under other names and more espe- 
cially to the Erica vernix and physodes, and the name of Lambertiana 
has been transferred by gardeners to a set of hybrids raised from phy- 
sodes and some allied species; and although the plant, here figured, 
differs slightly in the colour of the flower, and in the breadth of the 
appendages to the anthers, from the ordinary Lambertiana, yet as the 
origin is evidently the same, and as these slight differences always 
occur between any two individual hybrids raised from the same parents, 
it would be useless to coina new name. Like a great proportion of 
hybrid heaths it is more ornamental, bearing a larger number of flow- 
ers than its parent, though probably requiring rather more care in 
cultivation. Like our last subject, this was raised at Oldford, in 1835, 
under the attentive management of Mr. T. Williams. G 
IVATION OF THE NAMES 
Erica, from the supposition that the Erica of the a ients was a Heath. 
ne Ss 
Lamsertiana, in honour of A. B. Lambert, Esq. Vice President of the Lin- 
nean Society. 
SYNONYMEs. 
Erica Lampertiana. Loddiges’ Botanical Cabinet, t. 3. 
