OCTANDRIA— MONOGYNIA. Erica. 225 



not aware perhaps that no other supposed Erica has been 

 found to have such a capsule, or indeed such a calyx. 



1. C. vulgaris. Common Ling. 



C. vulgaris. Hull vA.UA. Hook. Scot. I \9. 



Erica vulgaris. Linn. Sp. PL 501 . Willd. v. 2. 373. Fl. Br. 417. 



Engl. Bat. v. 15. t. 1013. Curt. Lond.fasc. 5. t. 30. Rail Syn. 



470. Bull. Fr. t.34l. Fl. Dan. t. &77. Ger. Em. 1380./. Ehrh. 



PI. Off. 173. 

 E. n. 1012. Hall. Hist. v. 1 . 432. 

 Erica. Matth. Valgr.v. I. I37.f. Camer.Epit.7o.f. Trag.Hist. 



952./. Fuchs. Hist. 254./. 



/3. E. vulgaris hirsuta. Raii Syn. 471 . Don H. Br. S6. 

 E. ciliaris. Huds. ed. 1. 144; not of Linnceus. 



Common every where on dry mooi-s, heaths, and open barren 

 wastes ; as well as in woods where the soil is sandy or turfy. 



Shrub. June, July. 



Stems bushy, repeatedly and irregularly branched. Leaves deep 

 green, minute, sessile, acute, keeled, somewhat arrow-shaped, 

 closely imbricated on the young branches, making a quadrangu- 

 lar figure, like a close-beaten chain ; they are generally smooth, 

 but in /3 densely hoary all over. Fl. stalked, drooping, in longish 

 unilateral clusters, soon overtopped by leafy shoots. Inner calyx, 

 which is the most conspicuous part of the flower, of a shining 

 permanent rose-colour. Cor. paler and much shorter, .^nth, not 

 reaching beyond the corolla. Style longer. 



Grouse and other birds, as well as some quadrupeds, eat the seeds 

 and young shoots. 



There is a white-flowered variety ; and a very beautiful double red 

 one, cultivated in gardens, whose^owers, from a copious multi- 

 plication of the corolla, resemble little roses. 



217. ERICA. Heath. 



Linn. Gen. \ 92. Juss. \60. Fl.Br.A\7. Tourn. t. 373. Lam. 

 t. 287./. 2— 5. 



Nat. Ord. see n. 216. 



Cal. inferior, of 4 ovate-oblong, permanent leaves. Cor. of 

 1 petal, ovate-oblong or bell-shaped, more or less elon- 

 gated, 4-cleft, withering. Filam. from the receptacle, 

 capillary. Anth. terminal, erect, cloven, opening by lateral 

 orifices, which adhere to those of the next anther till the 

 pollen is discharged. Germ, superior, roundish. Style 

 thread-shaped, erect. Stigma obtuse. Caps, roundish, 

 with 4 furrows, 4 cells, and 4 valves, each bearing a par- 

 tition from the centre. Seeds numerous, minute. 



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