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In Scotland only two exist; Erica cinerea and Erica tetralix . In spite of Linnaeus' epithet (`ashy'), the former is called bell heather by all Scots and fine-leaved heath by many botanists; the latter is often called bell heather , too, by noncritical observers (since the flowers are very bell-like), but is known as the cross-leaved heath by those who pay more attention to the strongly two-ranked arrangement of the tiny needlelike leaves.
Erica was given a 10-day suspension, of which she served nine days before agreeing to attend a drug-screening and education program.
' Heaths and heather are indeed finely leaved plants which in a sense are bristly, but their botanical name ( Erica for heath, Calluna for heather) reflect the properties of their stems.
Several readers suggested the addition of that '70s hit, zipless fuck an act of intercourse without an emotional connection, coined by Erica Jong in Fear of Flying . We had originally decided to omit it since zipless was often used on its own to mean passionate but emotionally uninvolved, but it does appear often enough as a set phrase to deserve entry.
The Celts, pressed to the sea by the Romans, survived in lands either too rough for effective military operations or too incompatible to agriculture, but not too inhospitable for the Erica plant family.