ALPHABETICAL INDEX
TO THE
FIGURES IN VOL. III.
THE
HEATHERY;
OR A
MONOGRAPH
OF
THE GENUS ERICA:
CONTAINING
COLOURED ENGRAVINGS,
WITH
LATIN AND ENGLISH DESCRIPTIONS, DISSECTIONS, ETC.
OF ALL
THE KNOWN SPECIES OF THAT EXTENSIVE AND DISTINGUISHEDTRIBE OF PLANTS.
By H. C. ANDREWS.
IN SIX VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED.
LONDON:
HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1845.
DISSERTATION concluded.
The limits of this extensive family may be considered, with some degreeof accuracy, to be bounded by about three hundred (species and distinctvarieties): consequently, in the termination of this Volume, the Genusmay be regarded as half delineated. The Cape of Good Hope has been, andstill continues to be, the emporium for this unrivalled tribe of plants;and unless some new source should be found to extend this alreadynumerous Genus, by the discovery of some unexpected mine of novelty; weotherwise have little doubt but the termination of the Sixth Volume willbe found to contain all the species and distinct varieties. Thedifficulty of preserving many of this fine tribe is still a subject ofgeneral complaint, and by no means easy to be remedied where thesituation is low, as the great enemies of the Ericas are the fogs, whichinvariably gravitate towards the marshes and low grounds; but wherethe situation is elevated and open, the preservation of the major partof them is by no means so difficult. Greater care is requisite in thewatering of them than is generally imagined, as too much renders themweak, and subjects them to damp off; whilst, on the contrary, too littleis frequently fatal; for, if they once droop their heads for want of[Pg 6][Pg 5][Pg 4]water, they very rarely survive the neglect.
ERICA acuminata.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores fasciculati, sub-terminales. Pedunculibreves. Corolla sub-cylindrica, ore arctata, pollicaris, purpurea;laciniis ovatis, revolutis. Folia quaterna, trigona, retorta, acuminata,lucida, supra plana, subtus sulcata. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis,ramossissimus. Rami flexuosi, filiformes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow in bunches, nearlyterminal. Footstalks short. Blossom nearly cylindrical, narrowed at themouth, an inch long, and purple. Segments of the border are egg-shaped,and rolled back. Leaves by fours, three-sided, rolled back,sharp-pointed, and shining, flat on their upper surface, and furrowedbeneath. Stem shrubby, a foot high, very branching. The branches areflexuose, and thread-shaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from July till October.
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