Tips beardless, within the blossom: shaft without. Flowers grow in crowded spikes near the ends of the branches: blossoms club-shaped, and of a scarlet colour, between erect and spreading: footstalks coloured. Leaves in whorls of six to eight, upright and lance-shaped, flat on the inner and furrowed on the outer side: leaves at the base of the plant are narrower, pointed, and spreading. Stem upright, four feet high: branches mostly simple. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from October till February. REFERENCE. 1. The empalement. 2. A blossom. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. [Illustration] ERICA serpyllifolia. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ: stylo exserto: stigmate magno. Flores terni vel seni, ramos terminantes. Corolla parva, campanulata, pallide carnosa. Folia terna, cordata, patentia, supra subplana, setis minutis instructa, subtus glauca; marginibus revolutis. Caulis subpedalis, tenuis. Rami et ramuli filiformes, numerosi, flexuosi. DESCRIPTION. Tips beardless, within the blossom; shaft without; summit large. Flowers grow by threes or sixes, terminating the branches. Blossom small, bell-shaped, and of a pale flesh-colour. Leaves by threes, heartshaped and spreading, nearly flat on their upper surface, and furnished with minute setæ or bristles beneath, glaucous, with the edges rolled back. Stem nearly a foot high, and slender. The large and smaller branches thread-shaped, numerous, and slender. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from July till November. REFERENCE. 1. A leaf. 2. The same shown from beneath, magnified. 3. The empalement. 4. A blossom. 5. Chives and pointal, magnified. 6. Seed-bud, magnified. [Illustration] ERICA Solandroides. DESCRIPTIO. Antheræ aristatæ, sub-exertæ. Flores in ramis terminales, capitatim aggregati, cernui. Corolla subcylindracea, parva, albens. Folia plerumque quaterna, obtusa, linearia, pilosa, recta, adscendentia: seniora patentia. Caulis sesquipedalis: ramis longis, simplicibus, erectis, vel flexuosis. DESCRIPTION. Tips bearded, and just without the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in crowded heads, nodding. Blossom nearly cylindrical, small, and of a whitish colour. Leaves mostly by fours, obtuse, linear, hairy, straight, and ascending: the older ones spreading. Stem a foot and half high: the branches are long, simple, upright or flexuose. * * * * * Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from April till July. REFERENCE. 1. Empalement magnified. 2. A flower. 3. A chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. [Illustration] ERICA stellifera. DESCRIPTIO.