Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the smaller branches mostly by fours, in a horizontal direction; scarcely any footstalks. Blossom nearly cylindrical, swelled, and hairy, purple at the base, and white at the upper part. Leaves by fours, linear, and hairy. Stem shrubby, upright, and spreading. The smaller branches are numerous and hairy. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from January till May. 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 mammosa. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ. Flores sub-terminales, conferti, verticillati, penduli, spicam longam formantes. Pedunculi longissimi. Corolla ventricoso-cylindracea, apice attenuata, ad basin constricta, profunde purpurea; laciniis minutis, erectis. Folia quaterna, linearia, erecta, patentia. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, sesquipedalis. Rami verticillati, erecti. DESCRIPTION. Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers nearly terminal, in crowded whorls, hanging down, and forming a long spike. Footstalks very long. Blossom of a swelled cylinder-shape, tapered at the end, and pinched in at the base, of a deep purple colour. The segments of the border are very small, and upright. Leaves by fours, linear, erect, and spreading. Stem shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high. The branches are whorled and upright. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till November. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement magnified. 2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA mammosa, _minor_. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ. Flores semi-unciales, in summitate ramorum, verticillati, penduli. Corolla purpurea, ventricoso-cylindrica, apice attenuata, ad basin constricta; laciniis minutis, erectis. Folia quaterna, linearia, glabra, curvata; seniora patentia, juniora adscendentia. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra. Rami verticillati, curvati. DESCRIPTION. Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers half an inch long, near the summit of the branches, in whorls, hanging down. Blossom purple, of a swelled cylinder-shape, tapered at the end, and pinched-in at the base. The segments of the border are very small, and upright. Leaves by fours, linear, smooth, and curved; the older ones spreading, and the younger ones ascending. Stem shrubby, upright, a foot or more high. The branches grow in whorls, and are curved. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from September till December. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement magnified. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA margaritacea. DESCRIPTIO.