1. The empalement magnified.
2. The seed-bud, chives and pointal.
3. A chive magnified.
4. The seed-bud and pointal magnified.
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ERICA physodes.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. Corolla ovata, inflata, glabra, viscosa, crystallina, alba, magnitudine pisi; laciniis acuminatis erectis. Folia quaterna, obtusa, margine glandulosa, viscosa, patentia. Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis, erectus, ramulosus.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips crested, within the blossoms, which are egg-shaped, swelled out, smooth, clammy, like crystal, and white, the size of a pea; segments of the border tapering and upright. Leaves by fours, are blunt, the edges glandular, clammy, and spreading. Stem shrubby, grows two feet high, is upright, and has numerous little branches.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.