ERI'CA MULTIFLO'RA. 
MANY-FLOWERED HEATH. 
Order. 
MONOGVNIA. 
Natural Order. 
E RICE a:. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
France. 
18 inches. 
June, Oct. 
Perennial. 
in 1731. 
No. 376. 
The word Erica is derived from the Greek 
EREico, to break. It has been applied to this genus 
either from the fragility of the branches of some 
species of it ; or from its medicinal properties, which 
were supposed to be efficacious in reducing or break- 
ing the calculus. Multiflora, from the Latin mul- 
tus, many ; and flos, a flower. 
The Erica multiflora is a native of the milder 
parts of Europe; and on its introduction to this 
country, was kept as a greenhouse species. It bears 
our climate very well ; though in some situations, 
where no peat has been mixed with the soil in which 
it is planted, it will assume a sickly appearance, and 
if not removed will, ultimately, be lost. 
The hardy Heaths are generally natives of ex- 
posed situations, on hills, where the temperature is 
low, in comparison with the vallies. When planted 
in the warmth of the low-lands, the same exposure 
is disadvantageous. They succeed best in cool 
places, with partial shelter from the sun. Their 
trailing branches should be laid in light vegetable 
mould, in which they will strike root, and subse- 
quently admit of separation. 
Hort. Kevv. 2, v. 2, 367. 
Class. 
OCTANDRIA. 
