1. The empalement magnified.
2. The flower shown from beneath.
3. Flower of a pale variety.
4. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified.
5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
6. The seed-bud magnified.

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ERICA pumila.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ; flores plerumque ternata, patento-cernui; pedunculi breves, colorati bracteis tribus coloratis instructi; corolla cylindracea, incarnata; laciniis oris viridibus pallidis, erectis; folia ternata, linearia, obtusa; caulis humilis, ramis numerosi.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips crested, within the blossom; flowers grow mostly by threes, spreading or nodding: footstalks short, coloured, and furnished with three-coloured floral leaves; blossom cylindrical and flesh-coloured; segments of the border of a pale green, and upright; leaves by threes, linear, and blunt; stem low, with numerous branches.