Crossword-Solution: CALLUNA 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Again, many hive-bees which confined their visits to the common ling (Calluna vulgaris), repeatedly flew towards Erica tetralix, evidently attracted by the nearly similar tint of their flowers, and then instantly passed on in search of the Calluna.

Even in wild plants, as in _Erodium_, _Calluna_, _Brunella_ and others, a botanist may recognize the rare white-flowered [147] variety by the pure green color of the leaves, at times when it is not in flower.

Could not the plants of the second locality have arisen from seeds transported from the first? White varieties of many species of blue-bells and gentians are found not rarely, white-flowering plants of heather, both of _Erica Tetralix_ and _Calluna vulgaris_ occur on European heaths; white flowers of _Brunella vulgaris_, _Ononis repens_, _Thymus vulgaris_ and others may be seen in many localities in the habitats of the colored species.

The heath family (_Ericaceæ_), besides the true heaths (_Erica_, _Calluna_), includes the pretty trailing-arbutus or may-flower (_Epigæa_), _Andromeda_, _Oxydendrum_ (Fig.

The heaths, _Calluna_ and _Erica_, which cover great tracts of barren sandy land in Europe, are absent from China, where the Ericaceous vegetation is made up of numerous species of _Rhododendron_, which often cover vast areas on the mountain slopes.