PL ex. cal. 
36. ERXCINiE. 158. Gypsocallis. 399 
Heaths in Cornwall; shrubby; July and August. 
Stem much branched, upright; leaves triangular; corolla 
flesh-colour. 
V. 159. CALLUNA. R. A. Salisbury. Ling. 
Calyx 4-parted, nearly as long as the corolla; corolla 
tubular, bellshape, 4-cut; stamens 8 ; anthers awned, opening 
by 2 pores; stigma 4,-lobed; capsule 4-celled, 4~valved ; 
dehiscence septifragal. — Stem shrubby ; leaves opposite, 
squarrose, in 4 rows ; flowers racemose, facing one way, 
drooping ; bractece 4, at the base of the calyx. 
Calluna sagittafolia. Arrowleaved ling r 
Leaves arrowshape. 
Erica vulgaris, Raii Syn. 470,' 1 ; Park. 1480. 
Erica vulgaris, sive pumila, Ger. em. 1380, 1. 
Erica sagittaefolia, Stokes Bat. M. M. 371. 
Calluna Erica, Be Candolle FI. Gall. 680. 
Common heath or ling . Heather. 
Heaths and woods; shrubby; June and July. 
Stem ascending ; flowers flesh-colour or white. — Young 
tops brewed along with half as much malt into a good beer; 
decoction tans leather and dyes alummed wool yellow. 
Honey, where it abounds, has a reddish cast. The plant 
is also used for binding mud cottages, for thatching, for 
making ropes, for brooms, for firing, for filling drains, and 
for beds, being confined in a frame with the flowering tops 
uppermost. 
0. hirsuta. Leaves downy. 
Erica vulgaris hirsuta, Raii Syn. 471, 2; Ger, em. 1380,2. 
Erica vulgaris hirsutior. Park. 1480. 
Erica ciliaris, Huds. FI. Angl. ed. 1, 144. 
VI. 160. ANDROMEDA. Linnaeus. Andromeda. 
Calyx very small, 5-parted; corolla ovate, bellied, 5-cut; 
limb reflected; stamens 10; anthers 2, horned above, opening 
in 2 foramens ; capsule 5-celled, 5-valved ; dehiscence locu- 
licidal. — Stem shrubby ; leaves perennial, alternate, edge 
turned over ; flowers aggregated, terminal ; peduncles brac- 
teated at bottom. 
Andromeda polifolia . Many-leaved andromeda. 
Leaves alternate, lanceolate, edge turned over; peduncles 
terminal, aggregated ; corolla ovate. 
