Tips crested, and within the blossom. Flowers terminate the smaller branches by threes, nodding. The leaflets of the empalement are ovate, carinate, and pressed to the flower. Blossom white and globular. Leaves by threes, nearly three-sided, pointed, and spreading. Stem a foot and a half high, upright, and branching. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from April till July. REFERENCE. 1. Branch of a small variety. 2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA vestita, _carnea_. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores aggregatim verticillati, supra medium ramulorum. Corolla clavata, uncialis, carnea. Folia plerumque sena, erecta, aggregata, linearia, petiolis longis capillaribus. Caulis erectus, sub-bipedalis, ramis simplicibus. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow in crowded whorls above the middle of the branches. Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, of a flesh colour. Leaves mostly by sixes, upright, crowded together, and linear, with long capillary footstalks. Stem upright, near two feet high. Branches simple. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till October. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement. 2. Chives and pointal, summit magnified. 3. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA vestita, _lutea_. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ: flores in verticillis aggregatis, sub apicibus ramulorum: pedunculis brevibus, bracteis tribus instructis: corolla cylindrica, uncialis, lutea, leviter costata: folia sena, septena, vel octona, erecta, aggregata, setacea, petiolis longissimis: caulis bipedalis, erectus, ramis simplicibus adscendentibus. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom: flowers grow in crowded whorls, near the ends of the branches: footstalks short, and furnished with three floral leaves: blossom an inch long, yellow, and slightly ribbed: leaves in sixes, sevens, and eights, erect, crowded, and bristle-shaped: footstalks very long: stem two feet high, upright, with simple ascending branches. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till October. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA vernix, _longiflora_. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ: flores plerumque ternati: corolla urceolata, glutinosissima, et lucida, colore aureo rubro tincto: limbo saturate viridi; laciniis erectis: folia ternata, sub-trigona, supra plana, subtus sulco exarata: caulis erectus, pedalis et ultra: ramulis ternis, verticillatis. DESCRIPTION.