Of the Hiftory of Plants; L 1 b. 5 
Chap. 51. Of Heathy Hdtber^or Linge . 
The Kindes, 
T Here be diners forts ofHeath,fome greater, fome leffer ; fome with broad leaues, and feme nar- 
rower : fome bringing forth berries, and others nothing but floures. 
1 »-pHe common Heath is a low plant, but yet wooddie and fhrubby,fcarce a cubit highfit 
1 bringeth forth many branches, whereupon do grow fundry little leaues fomewhat hard 
and rough, very like to thofe of Tamariske, or the Cypreffe tree : the floures are orderly placed a- 
longft the branches, fmaIl,foft, and of a light red colour tending to purple : the root is alfo wood- 
die, and creepeth vnder the vpper cruft of the earth :and this is the Heath which the Antients tooke 
to be the right and true Heath. 
I Erica vulgaris, five Pumila. 4 ; Erica vulgar is hirfuta. 
bringeth forth floures as white as fnow, wherein confifteth the difference : wherefore we may call 
it ErtcaptmilaalBa, Dwarfe Heath with white floures. 
2 The great Heath, (which Carolus Clufiui at his being in England found in the barren grounds 
about Wind for, which in his Spanifh trauels he maketh the firft kinde) rgroweth to the height of 
two cubits, feldome higher, full of branches, couered with a blackifh barke .-whereon are fet in very 
good order by couples, fmall, rough, fquare leaues finer than thofe of Tamariske or Cyprefle.The 
floures inclofe the little twiggie branches round about at certainediftances, from the lower part to 
the too fafhioned like little bottles,confifting of foure parts, of a fhining purple colour,very beau- 
ti 1 i! to behold, and the rather to be efteemed becaufe it floureth twife in the yeare.-the root is like- 
wife wooddie. 
*J ThtVefcription. 
Common or dwarfe Heath. 
ca- v vJLc\ eiSL+ J'- 
Rough leaned Heath; 
There is another Heath which differeth not from the precedent, failing that this plant 
t 3 This 
