OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. Calluna. 481 
part as long as the blossom* deciduous. Blossom cylindrical-oval; mouth 
a little contracted* four-cleft; segments recurved. It has the habit of 
Andromeda, but the numbers of Erica . Linn. Leaves generally alter¬ 
nate* sometimes opposite* or even three together; dark green above, 
white with cottony down underneath. Calyx one leaf* deeply divided 
into four spear-shaped* hairy* viscid segments. Blossom purplish red* 
flattened at the base* marked lengthwise with four slightly elevated 
ridges; segments spear-shaped* waved at the edge* rolled back. (Stems 
twelve to eighteen inches high. Caps, of four cells, with partitions from 
the edges of the valves ; which is never the case in any true Andromeda ; 
nor have ihejloivers, as far as I have seen* more than four segments. Sm. 
E.) 
(Irish Menziesia. Irish Worts* or Moor-wort. M. polifolia. Juss. 
Ait. Sm. Erica Daboecia . Willd. With. Erica Daheoci. Linn. Sp. 
PI. Huds. Andromeda Daboecia. Linn. Spongy wet uncultivated land 
on the mountains of Mayo, arid Hiar Connaght. Ray. On Croagh 
Patrick* in the county of Mayo. A. R. Lambert, Esq. FI. Brit. Very 
abundant in the district of Cunnemara* Galway. Wade. PL Hib. 
S. June—July. E.) 
(CALLU'NA. Bloss. one petal: Cal. double ; each of four 
leaves: Caps, superior ; partitions from the column, al¬ 
ternate with the valves, Sm. E.) 
C. vulga'ris. 
Curt. 297 — (E. Bot. 1013. E.)—Kniph. 11- Wale.—FI Dan. 677—Matth. 
152—Fuchs. 254 — Trag. 952—Dod. 767. l—Ger. Em. 1380. I—Park. 
1182. 5 — Louie, i. 37. l—Ger. 1196. 1. 2 — Park. 1480. 1. 
(Stems very woody, tortuous* bushy* one to two feet high. Leaves minute, 
closely imbricated in four rows, glabrous. Outer calyx of four small 
green leaves. Anthers not protruding beyond the blossom. Style longer. 
E.) The calyx has close to its base four or five circular, concave, coloured 
leaves, fringed with soft hairs; and on the outside of these two or three 
others partly resembling these, and partly the leaves of the cup. Proper 
cup coloured* so as in every respect to resemble the blossom, which is 
of a pale rose colour, sometimes white, not distended; four or five-bleft. 
Seed-vessel enclosed by the proper cup. 
(With white blossoms on Teesdale Moors. Mr. Winch. E.) 
Var. 2. Leaves and branches hoary. 
Envil Common, Staffordshire. Dr. Stokes. Birmingham Heath* (now 
enclosed. E.) 
Common Heath or Ling. Grig in Shropshire. Heather in Scotland. 
(Irish: Fraogh. Grig. Welsh: Grug cyffredin. Gaelic: Fraoch. E.) 
Heaths and woods. S. June—Aug.* 
* This plant, but little regarded in happier climates, is rendered subservient to a great 
variety of purposes, in the bleak and barren Highlands of Scotland. The poorer inhabitants 
construct walls for their cottages, with alternate layers of Heath, and a kind of mortar, 
made of black earth and straw, the woody roots of the Heath being placed in the centre, 
the tops externally and internally. They also make their beds of it, by placing the roots 
downwards, and the tops only being uppermost, are sufficiently soft to sleep upon. 
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