1. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified.
2. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
3. Flower of a red variety.
4. Flower of a pale variety.

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ERICA aurea, Var. flore pallido.

DESCRIPTIO.

Antheræ muticæ, sub-inclusæ. Flores horizontaliter verticillati, prope ramorum summitatem. Pedunculi brevissimi. Corolla cylindracea, luteolo-aurea, apice inflata: oris laciniis magnis, albis. Folia sena, linearia, patentia, apice incurvata. Caulis erectus, fruticosus, pedalis.

DESCRIPTION.

Tips beardless, and just within the blossom. Flowers grow horizontally in whorls near the summit of the branches. Footstalks very short. Blossom cylindrical, of a yellow gold colour, swelled at the end: segments of the border large and white. Leaves by sixes, linear, spreading, and turned inwards at the point. Stem upright, shrubby, a foot high.