finally cleft apart, adhering to the valves, and a part to the columella. 
Seeds affixed to central placentae, ovoid, or compressed, the testa 
adhering to them being reticulated, somewhat smooth or shining, 
rarely spread out into a fine membrane. Leaves most frequently 
linear, acerose, margins wholly revolute, and cohering under the leaf, 
and altogether hiding the real lower surface, sometimes they are 
rather broad, the lower surface being more or less shown, rarely are 
they entirely flat, whorled or rarely alternate, or scattered. Flowers 
on pedicels, one-flowered, axillary, terminal, solitary, or whorled, 
capitate, or umbellate, mostly drooping. Bracts on the pedicels, 
mostly tw^o, opposite, the three situate below, rarely wanting. 
Description of the Species, Erica pyriformis. Stem very 
much branched, round, covered with a brownish pubescent bark. 
Leaves arranged in fours, linear, patent, ciliate, obtuse, margin 
slightly revolute and transparent. Flowers numerous, in threes, 
nearly sessile, somewhat arjanged on one side of the stem, drooping. 
Corolla white, tubular, about half an inch long, more or less inflated 
in the centre, contracted at the base, limb divided into four parts, 
each part revolute, smooth. Calyx linear, acute, one-sixth the length 
of the corolla. Bracts linear, somewhat remote, and of unequal 
lengths. Anthers awnless, dehiscing by a pore at the apex. Sta¬ 
mens and Style concealed within the tube of the corolla; style one- 
third longer than the stamens. Stigma globose. 
Popular and Geographical Notice. All the species of Erica 
are exceedingly showy and handsome. It is one of the most extensive 
tribes of the vegetable kingdom, containing no less than about four 
hundred and fifty species, without varieties. They are almost exclu¬ 
sively natives of South Africa, but few species are found in Europe, 
and those the least attractive. The Erica cinerea, one of the most 
common of our British Heaths,is used, according to Lightfoot, by the 
inhabitants of the Western Isles of Scotland, boiled in water, to dye 
their yarn yellow. In Long Island it is frequently used for tanning 
leather ; and also for brewing, two-thirds of Heath being used to one 
of malt. 
Introduction; Where grown; Culture. This is a hybrid, 
raised by Mr. Williams, gardener to John Willmore, Esq., Oldford, 
near Birmingham; from impregnating Erica physodes with the pollen 
of Erica grandinosa. 
It requires the same treatment in cultivation as the Cape species, 
and may be propagated in the usual way. 
Derivation or the Name. 
Erica, from a supposition that the Erica of the ancients was a Heath. 
