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b. The ordinary name for undershrubs of the Linnæan genus Erīca, of which the common native species are E. (now Calluna) vulgaris, common heath, heather, or ling, E. cinerea fine-leaved heath (the ‘common heath’ of some parts), and E. tetralix cross-leaved heath. By botanical writers sometimes limited to the modern genus Erica, sometimes extended to other cognate genera of Ericaceæ.The name heath seems native to the south and middle of England: see heather n. Since the ‘common heath’ is now separated from the genus Erica, botanical writers sometimes distinguish it from the ‘true heaths’ by its northern names ling n.² and heather n.; but locally all three names include all the native species. Of early botanical writers, Turner mentions only E. vulgaris, Lyte (transl. Dodoens), E. vulgaris and tetralix, distinguished as ‘long heath’ and ‘smal heath’.