Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminal, in fours, nearly sessile, forming level-topt bunches. Empalement double; the outer one three-leaved and pressed to the inner; the margins skinny and serrulated. Blossom white, pellucid, and swelled at the base. Leaves by fours, linear, and smooth. Stem shrubby, a foot high, flexuose; the branches numerous. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from December till May. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA fimbriata. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ basi bicornutæ, inclusæ. Flores in extremis ramulis terminales, terni et ultra, cernuo-patentes; pedunculis brevibus, bracteis tribus fimbriatis, adpressis. Corolla sub-globosa, rubro-purpurea; laciniis semi-orbiculatis, æqualibus, patentibus. Folia terna et quaterna, erecto-patentia, obtusa, carinata, serrulata. Caulis fruticosus, semipedalis; ramis filiformibus, flexuosis. DESCRIPTION. Tips two-horned at the base, and within. Flowers grow at the extremity of the smaller branches in threes or more, between nodding and spreading. The footstalks are short, with three fringed floral leaves pressed to the cup. Blossom nearly globular, of a red purple: the segments form a half round, are equal and spreading. Leaves by threes and fours, between erect and spreading, obtuse, keeled, and slightly sawed. Stem shrubby, half a foot high. The branches are thread-shaped and pliant. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from March till June. REFERENCE. 1. A leaf magnified. 2. The under side of the same magnified. 3. A blossom. 4. Flowers of a white and purple variety. 5. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 6. Seed-bud, chives and pointal, magnified. [Illustration] ERICA flava. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, sub-inclusæ. Flores numerosi, sub-congesti infra apices ramorum, nutantes. Corolla ovata, costata, læte lutea. Folia ternata, sub-erecta, dein patentia. Caulis fruticosus, sub-erectus, cortice fulvo. Rami distantes, pauci, simplices, sub-erecti. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, just within the blossom. Flowers numerous, rather crowded beneath the tips of the branches, nodding. Blossom egg-shaped, ribbed, and of a bright yellow. Leaves by threes, nearly upright, then spreading. Stem shrubby, nearly upright, with a brown bark. Branches distant, few, simple, and nearly erect. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from Autumn till Spring. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement and floral leaves. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA flexuosa. DESCRIPTIO.