Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the smaller branches, mostly by fours, spreading out. Empalement and footstalk red. Blossom skittle-pin-shaped, white at first, and then dying off a rose colour: segments of the border upright. Leaves by fours, linear, between erect and spreading, blunt-ended and smooth. Stem shrubby, a foot high. Branches numerous, flexuose, and thread-shaped.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom early in Spring, and again in Summer.

REFERENCE.

1. Empalement.
2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified.
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

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ERICA Russeliana.

DESCRIPTIO.