2. Calyx et Corolla. 3. Calyx lente auctus. 4. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with bearded tips within the blossoms, which are cylindrically club-shaped, of a scarlet colour, and in whorls. Leaves nearly by sixes, bristle-shaped, and attenuated into capillary footstalks. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, two feet high, with the branches and branchlets erect, and often alternate. LEAVES chiefly in fives or sixes, erect, bristle-shaped, attenuated downwards into capillary footstalks. FLOWERS grow at the tops of the branches in whorls straight out. Footstalks short, furnished with three lance-shaped floral leaves. EMPALEMENT four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, slightly sawed, and pressed to the blossom. BLOSSOM cylindrically club-shaped, scarlet colour, and narrowed at the mouth, slightly curved, near an inch long, the border reflexed. CHIVES eight hair-like threads; tips bearded, and within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, with honey-cups at the base. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of April till August. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf. 2. The Empalement and Blossom. 3. The Empalement magnified. 4. The Chives and Pointal detached, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA pellucida. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis; floribus tubulato-ventricosis, pilosis, costatis, pellucidis, albis; foliis quaternis, aculeatis; caulibus gracilibus, hirsutis, ramosissimis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS gracilis, sesquipedalis, hirsutus; rami et ramuli numerosi, hirsuti, flexuosi. FOLIA quaterna, lanceolata, lucida, aculeata, subtus sulco exarata; petiolis adpressis. FLORES in ramulis terminales, plerumque quaterni, cernui; pedunculi longi, glandulosi, bracteis tribus lanceolatis glandulosis. CALYX tetraphyllum; foliolis lanceolatis, canaliculatis, glandulosis. COROLLA tubulato-ventricosa, pilosa, costata, alba, et pellucida; laciniis semi-orbicularibus, sub-erectis. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Novembris in Junium. REFERENTIA. 1. Pagina inferior Folii lente aucta. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina diducta, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers of an inflated tubular form, hairy, ribbed, and of a transparent white; leaves by fours, prickly; stem slender, harshly haired, and much branched. DESCRIPTION. STEM slender, a foot and a half high, and harshly haired; the small and larger branches are numerous, hairy, and flexuose.