This very small-flowered Erica was first raised at the Hammersmith Nursery, from Cape seed, in the summer of 1822, and was then called _atro_ or _viridi purpurea_, neither of which are characteristic of the plant, which furnishes when in bloom a very minute but good specific character; and although not specious, it may be regarded as a curious and interesting species. [Illustration] ERICA mirabilis. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus sub-sessilibus, terminalibus: foliis quaternis: caulis fruticosus. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS pedalis: ramuli numerosi, erecto-patentes. FOLIA quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glabra. FLORES subsessiles, terminates, fastigiati, quaterni: corolla ventricosa, imprimis alba, denique rosacea: ore arctato: laciniis cordatis, undulatis, expansis, maximis. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Junii ad Septembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Stamina a pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 3. Germen et pistillum stigmate lente aucto. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers nearly sessile and terminal: leaves by fours: stem shrubby. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot high: the smaller branches numerous, between erect and spreading. LEAVES by fours, linear, blunt and smooth. FLOWERS nearly sessile, terminal, in bunches of four together: blossom swelled out, white at first, but dying off a rose-colour: narrowed at the mouth: segments of the border heart-shaped, waved, spreading and large. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, hairy, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of June to September. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. THE Erica mirabilis may be considered as an intermediate species between the Ericas Walkeria and Hyacinthoides, removed from each and yet allied to both. When in perfection, the inner segments of the blossoms are of a pure white, but on going off may justly be said to blush themselves out of bloom. Our figure was made from the nursery of Messrs. Rollinsons at Lower Tooting, in the summer of 1824. [Illustration] ERICA mollis. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus in umbellis axillaribus, globosis, pilosis: foliis quaternis: caule fruticoso. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS pedalis, fruticosus, erectus; ramulis adscendentibus. FOLIA quaterna, linearia, obtusa, pilosa, patentia, supra plana, subtus sulcata. FLORES in umbellis, axillares; corolla globosa, purpurea, pilosa: laciniis rotundatis, patentibus, æqualibus. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Julio in Septembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.