SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossom: flowers grow in umbels from the axillæ of the leaves, globular, and hairy: leaves by fours: stem shrubby. DESCRIPTION. STEM a foot high, shrubby and upright: branches ascending. LEAVES by fours, linear, obtuse, hairy, and spreading, flat on their upper surface and furrowed beneath. FLOWERS grow in umbels from the axillæ of the leaves: blossom globular, purple, and hairy: segments of the border rounded, spreading, and equal. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of July till September. REFERENCE. 1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. One Chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. THE Erica mollis is a compact little shrub, with lively purple flowers: both flowers and leaves are covered with short hairs, which give it a soft appearance, although to the touch the hairs are more hispid than downy. Our figure is from a plant at Mr. Lee’s Nursery. [Illustration] ERICA moschata. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus campanulatis, pendulis, odoratis, terminalibus: foliis ternis, obtusis, odorem quasi moschatum spirantibus: caule erecto. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra; rami graciles. FOLIA terna, linearia, obtusa, supra sub-plana, subtus læviter sulcata, quasi moschum redolentia. FLORES plerumque terni, penduli; pedunculi colorati, bracteis tribus; corolla campanulata, odorata, incarnata; calycis foliolis lato-ovatis, adpressis. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Maio in Augustum. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Corolla. 3. Stamen auctum. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen auctum. 6. Ramus varietatis minoris. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers bell-shaped, pendulous, scented, and terminal: leaves by threes, obtuse, and scented like musk: stem upright. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, upright, a foot or more high; branches slender. LEAVES by threes, linear, and obtuse, nearly flat on the upper surface, lightly furrowed beneath, and scented like musk. FLOWERS mostly by threes, pendulous; footstalks coloured, with three floral leaves; blossom bell-shaped, scented, and flesh-coloured; leaflets of the cup are broadly ovate, and pressed to the blossom. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of May till August. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement magnified. 2. A Blossom. 3. A Chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. 6. Branch of a small variety.