ERPCA CINE REA. 
GREY HEATH. 
Class. Order. 
OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ERICACEAE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Inhabits 
Britain. 
1 foot. 
July, Sept. 
Perennial. 
Commons. 
No. 434. 
Whether this term originated from the Greek 
word ereico, which has been previously noticed, 
on account of medicinal properties or its fragility, 
is difficult to determine. Cinerea, from the Latin, 
signifying ash-coloured. Some of its branches and 
leaves have a very fine grey woolliness, but this is 
rather a microscopic object. 
This hardy British Heath is highly ornamental in 
the garden ; and from the difference of colour in the 
flowers of its several varieties, the curious florist 
may form, even from this single species, an inte- 
resting collection. Deep crimson, pure white, and 
intermediate tints occur of the Erica cinerea. 
Notwithstanding the beauty of our indigenous 
heaths, they are seldom cultivated with care and 
success in a garden. Being somewhat impatient 
of surface culture, they cannot advantageously be 
planted promiscuously in the parterre, but should 
have a province of their own, in a pure atmosphere, 
and sandy peat; where they may live in quietude, 
unknown to the spade and the hoe. If their 
branches be pegged down, they will grow more 
freely, and soon admit of divisions. 
Hort, Kew. 2, v. 2, 392. 
