Tips two-horned at the base, and within the blossom. Flowers grow in terminal umbels. Blossom tubular, oblong, and flesh-coloured. Leaves by fours and fives, linear, and blunt-ended. Stem shrubby, a foot or more high. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from September till April. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement magnified. 2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA mucronata. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ, stylo exserto. Flores in ramulis terminales, terni vel seni, cernui. Pedunculi longi, colorati. Corolla campanulata, incarnata, laciniis acutis patentibus. Folia terna, trigona, glabra, patentia, apice mucronata, incurvata, glauco-viridia. Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis, ramosus. Rami numerosi, erecto-patentes. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom: shaft without. Flowers terminate the smaller branches, from three to six, hanging down. Footstalks long, and coloured. Blossom bell-shaped and flesh-coloured: segments of the border pointed, and spreading. Leaves by threes, three-sided, smooth, spreading, mucronated at the end, turned inwards, and of a glaucous green. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high, branching. The branches are numerous, and between erect and spreading. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till August. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA moschata. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ; flores plerumque terni, penduli, terminales; pedunculi colorati bracteis tribus instructis; corolla campanulata odorata incarnata; calycis foliolis lato ovatis adpressis, folia terna, linearia, obtusa caulis fruticosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra; rami graciles. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom; flowers grow mostly by threes, pendulous and terminal; footstalks coloured, and furnished with three floral leaves; blossom bell-shaped, scented, and flesh-coloured; leaflets of the cup are broadly ovate, and pressed to the blossom; leaves by threes, linear, and blunt, stem shrubby, upright, a foot or more high, branches slender. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till August. REFERENCES. 1. The empalement. 2. A blossom. 3. A chive, magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Nivenia, _longiflora_. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ basi bicornutæ, exertæ. Flores terminales, umbellati, pedunculis longissimis. Corolla purpurea, pyramidata, costata, fauce parum arctata: laciniis revolutis, obliquis. Folia terna, late-linearia, obtusa, margine pilis longissimis obsita, subtus sulcata, patentia. Suffrutex pygmæus, ramosus. Rami et ramuli divaricati, patentes. DESCRIPTION.