HEATH, with crested tips, within the blossom; shaft without; blossoms globularly bell-shaped; flowers terminate the branches in small bunches; leaves grow by fours, linearly three-sided, smooth and upright. DESCRIPTION. STEM upright, and branching; the small branches are numerous, upright, and smooth. LEAVES grow by fours, linearly three-sided, upright, furrowed on the under part and smooth; with very short foot-stalks, pressed to the branches. FLOWERS terminate the branches, are a little bent downwards, and grow in small bunches; the foot-stalks are thread-shaped, with three linear floral leaves on them. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved, the little leaves are awl-shaped, keeled, furrowed, smooth, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM pitcher-shaped, white, and a little longer than the cup; the segments of the border are blunt, upright and spreading. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads, bent inwards at the ends. Tips egg-shaped, brown, crested and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud globular, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from June, till September. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement, and Blossom. 2. The Empalement, magnified. 3. The Chives, and Pointal. 4. A Chive, magnified. 5. The Pointal, magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Massonia. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis; corollis sub-cylindricis, viscosis, speciosissimis, tricoloratis; foliis subquaternis, pilis longis vestitis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, bipedalis, basi simplicissimus, dein ramosus, rami suberecti, foliis toti tecti. FOLIA subquaterna, oblonga, serrata, pilis longis vestita, supra plana, subtus sulcata, petiolis brevissimis adpressis. FLORES subterminales, plures, simplice verticillati, cernuo-patenti, pedunculi pilosi, foliolis tribus subtus instructi. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lanciolatis, hirsutis, adpressis, apicibus revolutis. COROLLA subcylindracea, micans, viscosa, rubra, lutea et viridia speciosissime colorata, ore arctato, quadrisido. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, longitudine tubi, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ muticæ. PISTILLUM. Germen clavatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, subexsertus. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mensi Augusti ad Decembrem. 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 blossom, which are nearly cylindrical, clammy, most beautiful, and three-coloured; the leaves grow mostly by fours, and are entirely covered with long hairs. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, upright, grows two feet high, simple at the base, then branching, the branches nearly upright, and quite covered by the leaves.