单词 | cross-leaved heath |
释义 | > as lemmascross-leaved heath 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’. ΚΠ c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 354 Wið liþa sare..smeoce mid hæþe, and þæt ylce on wine drince. c1325 Know Thyself 30 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 131 What is al þat forþ is past Hit fareþ as fuir of heth. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 238/2 Hethe or lynge, fowaly, bruarium. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.viijv Erice is called in greeke Ereice, it is named in english Heth hather, or ling..it groweth on frith and wyld mores, some vse to make brusshes of heath. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xvi. 677 There is in this Countrie two kindes of Heath, one..is called long Heath. The other..smal Heath. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. i. 62 Now would I giue a thousand furlongs of Sea, for an Acre of barren ground: Long heath, Browne firrs, anything. View more context for this quotation 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 379 They frequently used the Erica vulgaris, heath, or ling instead of hopps to preserve their beer. 1728 J. Thomson Spring 26 Oft, of bolder Wing, he dares The Purple Heath, or where the Wild-Thyme grows. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xix. 265 Common Heath..is distinguished by the anthers being terminated with an awn, and lying within the flower. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xix. 265 Fine-leaved Heath has crested anthers lying within the corol. 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. (1849) xxvii. 307 Heaths are exclusively confined to the Old World. 1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 482 The Common Heath, or Ling, of the hills of Britain, is Calluna vulgaris..With Heath, cottages are thatched, besoms are made, and faggots are composed to burn in ovens. 1858 R. Hogg Veg. Kingdom 483 The Heaths [of] our greenhouses are all natives of the Cape of Good Hope, and embrace upwards of six hundred species and varieties. < as lemmas |
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