FLOWERS terminate the branches in one to four flowers, nodding: blossom club-shaped, curved, and of a reddish colour. 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 August till November. REFERENCE. 1. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 2. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 3. Intermediate flower varieties. THIS Erica varies considerably from the original species, and yet retains the leading feature of transparency that designates the mother plant. The flowers given with the dissections are from plants nearly allied to the white-flowered _pellucida_; and had we been then in possession of them, they would have arranged better with that figure; but this opportunity admits of their being made use of as intermediate varieties of flower only. Our drawing was taken at the Hammersmith nursery in 1816, where it was first raised from seed. [Illustration] ERICA peltata. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA antheris muticis, subexsertis: stylo exserto, filiformi: stigmate peltato, magno: floribus axillaribus, terminalibus: foliis ternis: ramis numerosis: caule erecto. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS subpedalis: rami et ramuli numerosi, filiformes, adscendentes. FOLIA terna, erecto-patentia, linearia, recta, obtusa. FLORES axillares, terminales: pedunculi longi, bracteis calyci adpressis: corolla campanulata, parva, carnea, subcernua: stylo filiformi, longo: stigmate peltato, magno. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Julii in Octobrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx lente auctus. 2. Corolla lente aucta. 3. Stamina lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH, with beardless tips, just without the blossom: shaft without, thread-shaped: summit shield-shaped and large: flowers grow from the axillæ of the leaves, and terminate the branches: leaves by threes: branches numerous: stem upright. DESCRIPTION. STEM nearly a foot high: the large and small branches are numerous, thread-shaped, and ascending. LEAVES by threes, between erect and spreading, linear, straight and obtuse. FLOWERS grow from the axillæ of the leaves, and terminate the branches: peduncles long, with floral leaves pressed to the cup: blossom bell-shaped, small, flesh-coloured, and nearly nodding: shaft thread-shaped and long: summit shield-shaped and large. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of July till October. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement magnified. 2. A Blossom magnified. 3. The Chives magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.