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PHYLICA ERICOIDES. HEATH-LEAV'Q
PHYLICA.
Clefs and Order.
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.
Generic Character.
ferianthium g-partitum, turbinatum. Petala o.. Squama 5,
ftamina munientes. Caff, tricocca, infera.
Specific Character and Synonyms.
PHYLICA ericoides foliis linearibus verticillatis. Linn. Syft.
Vegetal, ed. 1 4. Murr. f. 235. Ait. Ke?v. V. i.
p. 268.
ALATERNOIDES africana ericsefoliis, floribus albicantibus
et mufcofis. Comm. Hort. 2 . p. \. t. ^.
Mr. MILLER, who cultivated this plant in 1731, informs
us, that it grows wild about Lifbon, where it covers extenfive
trafts of ground, in the fame manner as the heath does in
this country ; it feldom rifes above the height of three feet,
and is much difpofed to become bufhy; its flowers, which are
flightly odoriferous, begin to appear in autumn, and continue
during the winter and fpring; they grow in little heads on
the fummits of the branches: their whitenefs, contrafted
with the dark colour of the .foliage, forms a pleafing ap
pearance, and entitles this plant, though a common and
long-eftablifhed inhabitant of the greenhoufe, to a place
with fuch as may boaft more brilliancy of colour.
Its leaves, which thickly cover the [talks, do not well
accord with LINNJEUS'S fpecific defcription.
It'is ufually propagated by cuttings, which ftrike readily,