204 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Fraoch. Gaulis. 



In barren uncultivated foils and woods abundantly. 

 T.. Vl-VIII. 



The leaves are tetragonal, and grow in four imbri- 

 cated feries ; the uppermofl have angles at the 

 bafe like the barbs of an arrow : the flowen; 

 grow in a thick fpike on one fide of the ftalk, 

 each fubtended by a fmall braftea : the calyx re- 

 mains after the flower fades, and clofes over the 

 capfule for its fecurity. 



It varies fometimes with hoary leaves. 



merea 2, E- antheris. bicornibus inclufis, corollis ovatis race- 

 mofis, foliis ternisglabris linearibus. ^p. pi. 501. 

 (Ocd. Ban. t. 3^8. cpi, Ger. Em. i^Si.f, 7O 



Fine-lcav'd Heath. Anglis, Hather. Scotts, 



Fraoch. Gaulis, 



In uncultivated foils and woods the mod common 

 of all plants. T,. VIFVIII. 



Fleath or Mather is apply'd to many oeconomical 

 purpofes amongft the Highlanders : they fre- 

 quently cover their houfes with it inftead of 

 thatch, or elfe twift it into ropes, and bind down 

 the thatch with them in a kind of lattice- work : 

 in moft of the Weftern ides they dye theiryarn 

 of a yellow color, by boiling it in water with 

 the green tops and flowers of this plant : in Kum, 

 Skye, and the Long-IJland, they frequently tan 

 their leather in a ftrong deco6tion of it : for- 

 merly the young tops are faid to have been ufed 

 alone to brew a kind of ale, and even now I was 



informed 



