Tips crested, and within the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in umbels, nodding. Umbels from 6 to 12 flowers. Blossom nearly egg-shaped, smooth, and purple; narrowed at the mouth, with the segments small and reflexed. Leaves by fours, smooth, blunt, and horizontally spreading. Stem upright, shrubby, a foot and a half high. Branches upright, and strict; the small branches in whorls. * * * * * Native of Portugal. In bloom from August till November. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA taxifolia. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in apicibus ramulorum umbellati, numerosi, erecti. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis ovatis, mucronatis, concavis, membranaceis. Corolla ventricosa, ore arctata, carnea, laciniis patentibus. Folia terna, trigona, glabra, rigida, mucronata. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, sub-pedalis, ramosissimus. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow at the ends of the small branches in umbels, numerous and upright. Cup four-leaved; leaflets egg-shaped, pointed, concave, and skinny. Blossom swelled at the base, narrowed at the mouth, and flesh-coloured; segments spreading. Leaves by threes, three-sided, smooth, harsh, and pointed. Stern shrubby, upright, near a foot high, and very branching. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from August till November. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement magnified. 2. A blossom divested of its empalement. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA tenella. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ bicornutæ, inclusæ. Flores in ramulis terminales, congesti, capitati, numerosi, sub-erecti. Corolla ventricosa, parva, pallide-purpurea, ore parum arctata. Folia quaterna, tenuia, linearia, glabra. Caulis spithamæus, erectus, fruticosus. Rami filiformes, virgati, patentes. DESCRIPTION. Tips two-horned, and within the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in clustered small heads, are very numerous, and grow nearly upright. Blossom bellied, small, of a pale purple, the mouth a little narrowed. Leaves by fours, are thin, linear, and smooth. Stem a span high, upright and shrubby. The branches, are thread-shaped, and spreading. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from October till March. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal magnified. [Illustration] ERICA tetragona. DESCRIPTIO.