HEATH, with beardless tips, and chives divaricately cernuous from the solitary flowers, leaves in threes, and branches whorled. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, two feet high, with numerous whorled branches, very slightly spreading. LEAVES in threes, erect, small, fleshy, shining, furrowed beneath, with petioles pressed to the branchlets. FLOWERS solitary, terminal, on very numerous, lateral, ternate, and slightly drooping branches; peduncles furnished with three floral leaves. EMPALEMENT four-leaved, with the leaflets egg-shaped. BLOSSOM small, square, of a yellow-white colour, with segments spreading and rounded. CHIVES eight, capillary, very long, and hanging more or less out of the flower; tips beardless. POINTAL. Seed-bud turban-shaped, woolly; shaft thread-shaped. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of June till September. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement. 3. A Blossom. 4. The Empalement and floral leaves magnified. 5. A Blossom of a white variety. 6. The Chives and Pointal magnified. 7. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 8. The Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Swainsonia. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis: floribus in umbellis terminalibus: foliis quinis vel senis, confertis, erectis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra: ramulis verticillatis. FOLIA quina vel sena, obtusa, erecta, conferta, supra plana, subtus sulcata. FLORES ramos terminant in umbellis: pedunculis brevibus, bracteis tribus adpressis. CALYX. Perianthium tetraphyllum: foliolis lanceolatis calyci adpressis. COROLLA sub-cylindrica, pollicaris, miniata: laciniis ovatis, patentibus. STAMINA. Filamenta octo capillaria: antheræ muticæ, sub-inclusæ. PISTILLUM. Germen oblongum, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis glanduliferis. Stylus filiformis. Stigma tetragonum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret in mensibus autumnalibus. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Stamina à Pistillo diducta: antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips just within the blossoms: flowers grow in terminal umbels: leaves by fives or sixes, crowded, and upright. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, upright, a foot or more high: the small branches grow in whorls. LEAVES by fives or sixes, obtuse, erect, and crowded, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath. FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels: footstalks short, with three floral leaves pressed to them. EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved: leaflets lance-shaped, and pressed to the cup. BLOSSOM nearly cylindrical, an inch long, and of a reddish colour: segments ovate, and spreading. CHIVES. Eight hair-like threads: tips beardless, and just within the blossom. POINTAL. Seed-bud oblong, with glandular nectaries at the base. Shaft thread-shaped. Summit four-cornered. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers in the autumnal months. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement.