EMPALEMENT. Cup four-leaved. BLOSSOM one petal, four-cleft. CHIVES. Threads eight, hair-like, inserted into the receptacle. Tips two-cleft at the end. POINTAL. Seed-bud above. Shaft, thread-shaped. Summit crowned. Capsule four-celled. Partitions from the edge of the valves. SEEDS numerous, very small. Obs. _The tips in some are notched at the end, in others two-horned, crested, bearded, beardless, or pencilled; within the blossom, or without._ ERICA acuta. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. Flores in apice omnium ramulorum, terni, cernui. Corolla urceolata, purpurea, nitida. Folia quaterna, subulata, mucronata, glabra, erecta. Caulis erectus, pedalis, gracilis. Rami pauci; ramuli numerosi, brevi, erecti. DESCRIPTION. Tips crested, within the blossom. Flowers grow by threes at the ends of all the small branches, nodding. Blossom pitcher-shaped, purple, and shining. Leaves by fours, awl-shaped, sharp-pointed, smooth, and upright. Stem upright, a foot high, slender. Branches few; the small branches numerous, short, and upright. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till July. REFERENCE. 1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. A blossom. 4. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA albens. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in axillis foliorum, solitarii, cernui. Corolla ventricosa, ore arctata, sub-albicans. Folia terna, trigona, linearia, acuta, glabra. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, erectus, ramosus, gracilis. Rami simplices. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom. The flowers grow from the base of the foot-stalks of the leaves, singly, and are bent downwards. Blossom swelled at the base, straightened at the mouth, and whitish. Leaves by threes, which are three-sided, linear, sharp-pointed, and smooth. Stem shrubby, a foot high, upright, branching and slender. Branches simple. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from April till July. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement and floral leaves. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Archeria. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ, stylo exserto. Corolla tubuloso-clavata, pollicaris, villosa, rubro-purpurea, viscosa. Folia sena, linearia, rigida, patentia, margine serrato-ciliata. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, sesquipedalis. Rami erecti, simplices. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom, shaft without. Blossoms tubularly club-shaped, an inch long, hairy, of a red purple colour, and clammy. Leaves by sixes, linear, harsh, spreading, and sawed like a fringe at the margin. Stem shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high. Branches upright and simple. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from August till November.