CAULIS erectus, sesquipedalis: ramulis plerumque ternis, ad basin procumbentibus, in medio patentibus, superne adscendentibus. FOLIA ternata, crassa, obtusa, recta, subtus sulcata, marginibus rotundatis. FLORES ad apices ramorum ramulorumque in umbellis irregularibus, cernuis: corolla campanulata, rubra, oris laciniis patentibus: calyce lanceolato, adpresso. GERMEN tiaræforme, bicoloratum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat in Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret a mense Februarii ad Novembrem. REFERENTIA. 1. Calyx. 2. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum. SPECIFIC CHARACTER. HEATH with crested tips, within the blossom; flowers lateral, terminal, bell-shaped, and nodding: leaves by threes. DESCRIPTION. STEM upright, a foot and a half high: smaller branches mostly by threes, hanging down at the base of the plant, in the middle spreading out, and ascending towards the top. LEAVES by threes, thick, blunt, straight, and furrowed beneath, with roundish edges. FLOWERS grow at the ends of the larger and smaller branches, in irregular umbels, nodding all one way. Blossom bell-shaped and red; segments of the border spreading. Empalement lance-shaped, and pressed to the blossom. SEED-BUD turban-shaped, two-coloured, with honey-bearing nectaries at the base. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. Flowers from the month of February till November. REFERENCE. 1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. THIS Erica was raised from British seed gathered from the E. rupestris, in the autumn of 1807, by Mr. Knight, nurseryman, in the King’s Road, Chelsea, and is the only one, out of a number sown, that vegetated. Its first year’s growth exhibited a strong resemblance to the habit of the original species, spreading and hanging over the sides of the pot. The second year it began to lose its pendulous appearance, and the third summer it acquired a handsome pyramidal form, instead of the straggling dwarf character of the mother plant. It may be found in bloom in spring, summer, autumn, and winter. [Illustration] ERICA Russeliana. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus terminalibus: pedunculis longis: foliis quaternis: caulis fruticosus. DESCRIPTIO. CAULIS sesquipedalis, virgatus, flexuosus: ramulis erecto-patentibus. FOLIA quaterna, trigona, leviter curvata, acuta, lucida. FLORES in apicibus ramorum, plerumque terni, cernui: corolla urceolata, rubra: laciniis oris patentibus, cordatis, carneis, acutis: pedunculis rubris, longis, bracteis tribus minoribus: calyx oblongus, acutus. GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum. Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei. Floret per menses æstivales, iterumque in mensibus autumnalibus. REFERENTIA. 1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx.