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It turns into a pod with four compartments that contain many seeds. 



FLOWERS: autumn. The flowers develop their color in January and February. 

 RANGE: Basses- Alpes, Savoy, Piedmont. 



The cross-leaved heath, Erica tetralix, LINN., is a foot or two tall. The leaves are 

 small, sessile, ciliate on their edges, and distributed on the branches in fours. The flowers, 

 numbering six, eight, or ten at the tip of each branch, are pink or sometimes white. Their 

 calyx has four deeply divided sections. The monopetalous bell-shaped corolla has four 

 small points at the top. The superior ovary turns into a small pod with several 

 compartments that contain a lot of seeds. 



FLOWERS: at the beginning of summer and at the end of autumn. 



RANGE: France, in peaty areas. 



USES. The heaths make a pleasant appearance in conservatories in the north of 

 France. In our southern provinces, they can be cultivated in open ground, where most of 

 them grow naturally. Several kinds of heather are used for making brooms and to fuel 

 ovens. 



CULTIVATION. They like loose soil that can be penetrated by their slender root 

 hairs. They are propagated by seed planting as well as by layering, but the latter method 

 isn't as good. 



KEY TO PLATES. 



1. Tree heath. 2. Complete flower, enlarged. 3. Stamens and pistil, same. 4. 

 Stamens, enlarged. 



1 . Winter heath. 2. Complete flower, enlarged. 3. Stamen. 4. Stamens and pistils 

 [numbering corrected by translator]. 



1. Cross-leaved heath. 2. Complete flower, enlarged. 



