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 DISTINGUISHED TRIBE OF PLANTS. BY H. C. ANDREWS. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. I. SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND ENLARGED. LONDON: HENRY G. BOHN, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 1845. INTRODUCTION. _As an apology for the present undertaking, the Author has only to observe, that the very great encouragement he has received in his folio edition of the_ ERICAS, _joined with the repeated application of many of its subscribers, for a small, concise, and pleasant reference to that beautiful and extensive tribe, has induced him to offer to the amateurs of plants in general, the present Monograph; in which will be given all the known species, and likewise all those successively that may hereafter be introduced; with Latin and English descriptions, dissections, &c. on the same plan as the folio work_. _The Author therefore hopes it will be regarded as an agreeable green-house companion, calculated to preserve the folio edition for the use of the library, to which on account of its size it is best adapted._ _When one volume is completed, every necessary requisite for binding will be given._ A SHORT DISSERTATION.