REFERENCE.

1. A leaf.
2. The empalement magnified,
3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified.
4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

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ERICA rupestris.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ. Flores terminales, plerumque ternati, cernui. Pedunculi rubri. Corolla campanulata, alba; laciniis semi-rotundis, patentibusque. Folia quaterna, conferta, patula, linearia, crassa, obtusa, lucida. Caulis humilis, humi fusus inter rupes.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers terminal, chiefly in threes, nodding. Footstalks red. Blossom bell-shaped, white; with the segments half round and spreading. Leaves by fours, crowded, spreading, linear, thick, blunt, and shining. The stem is low, and spread about upon the ground amongst rocks.