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.

This handsome little shrub was, we believe, first raised from Cape seed about the year 1814. It is one of the most ornamental of those Ericas recently introduced. The flowers are crowded together in bunches, and remain a long time in successive bloom.[Pg 143]

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ERICA pedunculata.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

Erica, antheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus terminalibus: pedunculis longissimis: foliis sparsis, pilosis.