Tips beardless, nearly within the blossom: shaft without: summit large and concave. Flowers grow in loose spikes, mostly by twos, from the axillæ of the leaves. Blossom bell-shaped, purple, and very small. Leaves by fours, linear, long, obtuse, glaucous, and spreading. Stem a foot high, upright, flexuose. Small branches grow in whorls, ascending, and thread-shaped.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom during the Autumnal months.

REFERENCE.

1. Empalement magnified.
2. A flower magnified.
3. chives and pointal.
4. A chive magnified.
5. Seed-bud and pointal magnified.

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ERICA mirabilis.

DESCRIPTIO.