HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossom; shaft just without; blossoms egg-shaped and downy; leaves grow by fours, bowed, turned inwards, and hairy; stem hairy. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, branching and hairy; the large and small branches are hairy; thread-shaped, and twiggy. LEAVES grow by fours, often by threes, blunt, hairy, turned inwards, bowed, and furrowed beneath; having very short foot-stalks pressed to the stem. FLOWERS terminate the small branches in umbels of two, three, or more, are very abundant, and purple; foot-stalks are hair-like, having three hairy floral-leaves on them. EMPALEMENT. Cup of four leaves, which are hairy, rough, awl-shaped, coloured at the ends, and blunt. BLOSSOM egg-shaped, blunt, and hairy; the segments of the mouth are small and upright. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads. Tips bearded, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud egg-shaped and glandular at the base. Shaft thread-shaped and purple. Summit shield-shaped at the base, and four-cornered at the top. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from August, till February. REFERENCE. 1. A leaf, magnified. 2. The Empalement, and Blossom. 3. The Empalement, magnified. 4. The Chives, and Pointal. 5. The Chives, magnified. 6. The Seed-bud, Shaft, and its Summit, magnified. [Illustration] ERICA pulchella. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis; flores sub-globosi, incarnati, axillares, paniculati; caulis filiformis, flexuosus; folia terna, trigona, sexfariam imbricata. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS flexuosus, pedalis, glaber; rami flexuosi, sub-simplices, filiformes, longi. FOLIA terna, trigona, glabra, obtusa, sexfariam imbricata, sub-erecta; petiolis brevissimis, adpressis. FLORES in summis ramulis paniculati, axillares; pedunculi longissimi, bracteis tribus, minutis, remotis, instructi. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ciliatis, concavis, adpressis, ovatis. COROLLA sub-globosa, parva, incarnata, laciniis minutis, erectis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria, receptaculo inserta. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen globosum. Stylus cylindricus, inclusus. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mensi Augusti, in Februarium. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium unum, lente auctum. 2. Corolla, et Calyx. 3. Calyx, lente auctus. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta. 5. Stamen unum lente auctum. 6. Germen, Stylus, et Stigma, lente aucta. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom; the flowers nearly globular, flesh-coloured, and grow from the lower part of the leaves, close to the branches, forming a loose spike; stem thread-shaped, growing zig-zagged; leaves grow by threes, three-sided, tiled, and forming six edges. DESCRIPTION. STEM grows zig-zagged, a foot high, and smooth; branches like the stem, grow nearly simple, thread-shaped, and long.