1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives detached from the pointal, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal magnified. [Illustration] ERICA comosa. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in ramulis terminales, quasi spicam comosam densam formantes. Pedunculi brevissimi. Corolla ventricosa, alba, basi inflata, apice arctata. Folia quaterna, obtusa, patentia, parva, glabra. Caulis fruticosus, subpedalis, ramosus. Rami virgati, penduli. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the small branches, forming as it were a thick tufted spike. Footstalks very short. Blossom bellied, white, swelled at the base, and narrowed at the mouth. Leaves by fours, blunt, spreading, small, and smooth. Stem shrubby, near a foot high, and branching. The branches are twiggy, and hang down. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from June till September. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA comosa, rubra. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in ramulis terminales. Pedunculi brevissimi. Corolla ventricosa, carnea, basi inflata, apice arctata. Folia quaterna, obtusa, parva, glabra. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, ramosus. Rami erecti, virgati, numerosi. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the small branches. Foot-stalks very short. Blossom bellied, flesh-coloured, swelled at the base, and narrowed at the mouth. Leaves by fours, blunt, small, and smooth. Stem shrubby, a foot high, branching. The branches are numerous, upright, and twiggy. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from August till December. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. A chive magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA conspicua. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ basi bicornes, exsertæ. Corolla clavata, sesquipollicaris, lutea, basi attenuata; oris laciniis magnis, revolutis. Folia quaterna, obtusa, linearia, crassa. Flores subterni. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, tripedalis, ramosus. DESCRIPTION. Tips two-horned at their base, and without the blossom. The blossoms are club-shaped, an inch and a half long, yellow, and tapering to the base: the segments of the mouth are large, and rolled back. Leaves grow by fours, are blunt, linear, and thick. Flowers grow mostly by threes. Stem shrubby, upright, grows three feet high, and branching. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from June till August. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement with its three floral leaves. 2. The chives detached from the pointal, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA costata. DESCRIPTIO.