Tips beardless, within the blossom: shaft without. Flowers terminate the smaller branches, from three to six, hanging down. Footstalks long, and coloured. Blossom bell-shaped and flesh-coloured: segments of the border pointed, and spreading. Leaves by threes, three-sided, smooth, spreading, mucronated at the end, turned inwards, and of a glaucous green. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high, branching. The branches are numerous, and between erect and spreading.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till August.

REFERENCE.

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.

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ERICA moschata.

DESCRIPTIO.