Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow in crowded whorls, above the middle of the branches. Footstalks short, and furnished with three leaf-shaped floral leaves. Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, whitish towards the base, and upwards of a bright rose colour. Leaves by sixes, sevens, or eights, upright, crowded, linear, attenuated downwards into capillary footstalks, and thence elegantly tremulous. Stem upright, two feet high; with simple branches. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till August. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA vestita, _rosea_. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, sub-exertæ. Flores aggregatim verticillati apices versus ramorum robustiorum, patentes. Corolla clavata, per-rosea, uncialis et ultra. Folia plerumque octona, conferta, linearia, obtusa, deorsum in petiolos capillares attenuata, et inde eleganter tremula. Caulis erectus, ramis longis, simplicibus, foliosis. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers crowdedly whorled near the ends of the stoutest branches, and spreading. Blossom club-shaped, of a deep rose colour, above an inch long. Leaves chiefly in eights, crowded, linear, and blunt, attenuated downwards into capillary footstalks, and thence elegantly tremulous. Stem upright, with the branches long, simple and leafy. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till October. 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 umbellata. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, exertæ. Flores umbellati, terminales, tres ad decem in singulâ umbellâ. Calyx duplex, adpressus; exterior triphyllus, et minor. Corolla globoso-conica, pallide rubro-purpurea, laciniis erectis. Folia ternata, parva, linearia, obtusa. Caulis fruticosus, flexuoso-erectus; ramulis filiformibus, patulis. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, without the blossom. Flowers umbelled and terminal, from three to ten in each umbel. Empalement double, pressed to the blossom; the outer one three-leaved, and smaller. Blossom globosely cone-shaped, of a pale red purple, with the segments erect. Leaves in threes, small, linear, and blunt. Stem shrubby, flexuosely erect; the branches thread-shaped, and a little spreading. * * * * * Native of Portugal. In bloom from April till July. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement magnified. 2. The seed-bud, chives, and pointal, magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Walkeria, _rubra_. DESCRIPTIO.