Tips bearded, and just without the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in crowded heads, nodding. Blossom nearly cylindrical, small, and of a whitish colour. Leaves mostly by fours, obtuse, linear, hairy, straight, and ascending: the older ones spreading. Stem a foot and half high: the branches are long, simple, upright or flexuose.

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

REFERENCE.

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

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ERICA stellifera.

DESCRIPTIO.