Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the smaller branches mostly by threes, and are nearly drooping. Blossom globular, white, and covered with soft hairs. Leaves by threes, linear, obtuse, small, smooth, and straight. Stem shrubby, a foot or more high, upright, and bushy.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from April till June.

REFERENCE.

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

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ERICA peltata.

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