FOLIA ternata, linearia, obtusa, parva, glabra, recta. FLORES ramulos terminant, plerumque terni, subcernui: corolla globosa, alba, pilis pubescentibus tecta. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Aprili in Junium. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Anthera una lente aucta. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with bearded tips, within the blossom: leaves by threes: flowers white and terminal. DESCRIPTION. STEM shrubby, a foot or more high, upright and bushy. LEAVES by threes, linear, blunt, small, smooth and straight. FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches mostly by threes, nearly drooping: blossom globular, white, and covered with soft hairs. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of April till June. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement magnified. 2. A Chive magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. The Erica nivalis is a perfectly new species, and very distinct from any of the numerous species at present in cultivation with us. Our drawing was made at the Hammersmith Nursery in May 1820. It is with difficulty increased by cuttings. [Illustration] ERICA Ollula. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris aristatis, tortis, inclusis: flores ramos terminant in fasciculis: foliis sparsis. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS subpedalis, fruticosus: ramis longis, adscendentibus. FOLIA sparsa, linearia, longa, obtusa: petiolis longis, adpressis. FLORES conferti, fasciculati, terminales: pedunculis longissimis, rubris, bracteis duabus distantibus: corolla urceolata, saturate carnea: oriis laciniis æqualibus, patentibus. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Julii ad Octobrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Corolla. 3. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with twisted, bearded tips within the blossom: flowers terminate the branches in bunches: leaves scattered. DESCRIPTION. STEM scarce a foot high, shrubby: branches long and ascending. LEAVES scattered, linear, long, and blunt-ended: footstalks pressed to the branches. FLOWERS crowded together in bunches at the ends of the branches: footstalks very long and red, with two floral-leaves set at a distance on them: blossom pitcher-shaped, and of a deep flesh-colour: segments of the border equal and spreading. 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 July till October. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. A Blossom. 3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.