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We have five other {pecies. 
x. Common Heath, Erica vulgaris. The leaves 
of a pale green; and the flowers of a faint 
flefh-colour, 
2. Common rough leaved Heath, Erica vulgaris 
birfuta, More branched than the former. 
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3: Five-leaved Heath, Erica tentifolia. The 
bark grey, and the leaves of a dark green. 
4. Fir-leaved Heath with numerous flowers; 
Erica folits corios multiflora. The flowers of 
_a pale crimfon, 
§- Myrtle-Heath, Erica cantabrica ‘flore maximo 
Soliis myrti Jubtus inconis. The leaves pointed: 
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MARSH CYSTUS, 
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"FFE cup is fmall, permanent, coloured, and divided into five fezments, ‘The flower is formed 
of a fingle petal; and is hollow, 
is roundifh, with five tidges, 
Englifh Marth Ciftus, 
Ledum paluftre. 
it is a fmall fhrub, not much branched. 
The leaves are oblong and narrow. 
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and divided into five fegments at the rim. The feed-veilel 
The flowers ftand on fhort foot{talks ; and are 
‘ fmall, and of a beautiful pale red, crowning the 
tops of the branches. 
We have it on boggy grounds in heaths. 
C. Bauhine calls it Viti idea affinis polit folio. 
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LIM £. 
booed Rao gD eae 
"THE cup is divided into five fegments, and is coloured. The flower is compofed of five oval 
petals. The fruit is a tough, globular capfule, with five feeds in five cells. 
Common Lime, 
Tilia vulgaris, 
The tree is ereét, and tolerably regular in 
growth. 
The bark is brown, 4 
The leaves are broad, ferrated, fharp-pointed, 
and of a fine green. 
The flowers are white and fragrant. 
We have it wild in the north; and it is 
planted about houfes, 
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C. Bauhine calls it Tilia famina folio majore. 
We have three other fpecies. 
1. The fmall-leaved Lime, Tilia folio minore. 
The leaves of a deeper green and finer fub- 
ftance. 
2, The red Lime, Zilia foliis leviter hirfutis vi- 
minibus rubris. The ridges on the fruit 
very high. : 
3. The Elm-leaved Lime, Tilia ulmi folia frudia 
bexagono, The ridges very high and large, 
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"THE cup is fmall, and has five fight dents at the edge. The flower is of the papilionaceous 
kind, and is formed of five petals ; the carina having two, The feed-veflel is a cylindrick pod, 
with large feeds. 
x. Common Broom. 
Genifta vulgaris. - 
The fhrub is four or five feet high. 
The bark on the trunk is of a pale brown, 
The young fhoots are numerous, angulated, 
and green. 
The leaves are fmall and oblong: they ftand 
three together. 
The flowers are large and yellow. 
It is common on wafte grounds. 
C. Bauhine calls ic Genifta Anglofa. 
2. Diers Broom. 
Genifta tinGoria vulgaris. 
This is a low, fhrubby plant; two feet high, 
and very much branched, 
The leaves ftand fingly, and are long, nar- 
row, and of a bright green. 
The flowers ftand in long clufters at the tops 
of the branches, and are large and yellow. 
We have it in dry paftures. 
C. Bauhine calls it Genifta tinforia Germanica. 
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