Tips beardless, just within the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches, mostly by threes, ascending, and spreading. Blossom cylindrical, rose-coloured, downy, and pellucid: segments of the border equal, and rolled back. Leaves by threes and fours, linear and short, slightly incurved, three-sided, pointed, and smooth. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high. Branches numerous, flexuose, twiggy, and thread-shaped.

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

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.
2. A chive, tip magnified.
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

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ERICA transparens.

DESCRIPTIO.