Definition of Erica vagans

1. Noun. Bushy shrub having pink to white flowers; common on the moors of Cornwall and in southwestern Europe; cultivated elsewhere.

Exact synonyms: Cornish Heath
Generic synonyms: Erica, True Heath

Lexicographical Neighbors of Erica Vagans

Erfurt
Ergotrate Maleate
Erianthus
Erianthus ravennae
Eric
Eric Arthur Blair
Eric Blair
Erica
Erica Jong
Erica arborea
Erica carnea
Erica cinerea
Erica lusitanica
Erica perspicua
Erica tetralix
Erica vagans (current term)
Ericaceae
Ericales
Erich Mendelsohn
Erich von Stroheim
Erichsen
Erichsen's sign
Erick
Ericka
Ericksonian
Eridanus
Eridian
Eridu
Erie
Erie Canal

Literary usage of Erica vagans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1796)
"Leaves in fours. Flowers one on each foot-italk. SYN. Erica vagans. Linn. Mant. z. 230. E. multiflora. ..."

2. Companion to the Botanical Magazine: Being a Journal, Containing Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1836)
"Mr. R. Ball of Mountjoy Square, Dublin, has obligingly communicated the intelligence of Erica vagans having been ascertained to be a native of Ireland, ..."

3. Memorials Journal and Botanical Correspondence by Charles Cardale Babington (1897)
"Erica vagans is abundant by the wayside throughout most part of the distance. ... We drove over Goonhilly Heath (where the Erica vagans was still not over) ..."

4. The Dublin Quarterly Journal of Science by Samuel Haughton (1865)
"In Cornwall, Erica vagans grows on serpentine, and one might draw a geological boundary by tracing that of the heath. Dr. Moore considered the plants which ..."

5. Cornish Notes & Queries: (first Series) by Cornish Telegraph, Peter Penn (1906)
"Erica ciliaris and Erica vagans are two very handsome heaths, ... Erica vagans is the well-known Cornish heath, and covers many acres of land in the Lizard ..."

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