STEM upright, weak, thread-shaped, and brown; branches thread-shaped, and hairy; small branches like hairs, numerous, and downy. LEAVES grow by threes, linear, blunt, furrowed at the back, and covered with long, harsh hairs; foot-stalks very short, and pressed to the branches. FLOWERS grow at the extremity of the smaller branches, by twos or threes, spreading out, and nodding; foot-stalks very short, having three small floral leaves, which are pressed to the blossom. EMPALEMENT. Cup of four leaves, which are egg-shaped, concave, turned inwards, very large, quite covered with strong hairs, pressed to the blossoms, and of a yellow-green. BLOSSOM nearly globular, white and woolly, almost hid within the cup. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, fixed into the receptacle. Tips beardless, and nearly within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud nearly round, and hairy at the end. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of July, till October. REFERENCE. 1. Empalement, and Blossom. 2. A Blossom. 3. The Empalement, magnified. 4. The Chives, and Pointal. 5. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one Tip magnified. 6. The Shaft, and its Summit, magnified. [Illustration] ERICA cerinthoides. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis; corollis tubulato-ventricosis, læte sanguineis, fasciculatis, hispidis; foliis quaternis, rigidis, ciliatis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS flexibilis, erectus, cinereus, sesquipedalis; rami pauci, erecti, raro ramulosi. FOLIA quaterna, ciliata, oblonga, convexa, subtus sulco exerata, petiolis brevibus, adpressis. FLORES magni, sessiles, aggesti in capitulum, cernui, pedunculi hispidi, bracteis tribus foliis similibus instructi. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lanceolatis, hispidis, foliis similibus. COROLLA, tubulato-ventricosa, læte sanguinea, hirsuta, ore obsolete quadrifida; pollicaria. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen cylindricum, hirsutum. Stylus filiformis, sub-exsertus. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mensi Augusti, in Aprilem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx, et Corolla. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina, et Pistillum. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; anthera una lente aucta. 5. Stylus, et Stigma, lente aucta. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossoms, which are of an inflated tubular shape, of a rich blood colour, hairy, and bundled together; the leaves grow by fours, are harsh, and lashed. DESCRIPTION. STEM grows upright, pliant, ash-coloured, and a foot and a half high; the branches are few, and upright, seldom branching. The LEAVES grow by fours, are lashed, oblong, rounded on the upper surface, and deeply furrowed on the under side, with short foot-stalks, pressed to the stems.