Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers grow mostly by fours, spreading, and terminal. Blossoms an inch long, ovately cylindrical, villose, of a scarlet colour: segments of the border upright, and spreading. Leaves by fours, linear, blunt, downy, and ascending. Stem shrubby, upright, a foot or more high. Branches numerous and downy.

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

REFERENCE.

1. Empalement.
2. A chive magnified.
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

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ERICA sulphurea.

DESCRIPTIO.