REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf.
2. The same shewn from beneath, magnified.
3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified.
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

This Erica was first raised from seed at the Hammersmith Nursery, about the year 1820, and named by the late Mr. Lee after Lady Temple; it is a perfectly new and distinct species; the Erica’s cerinthoides and obbata are the only heaths to which it bears any resemblance. It is a handsome shrub low in stature, but easily distinguished from most of this fine tribe by its glaucous, hairy foliage.[Pg 259]

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ERICA tenuiflora carnea.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.