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Erica Vestira. (var. Coccinea). Rev-— 
“Frower’p TreMuLous HEATH. 
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Cla/s and Order, 
OcTaNpDRIA Monocynia- 
‘Generic Charaéfer. — 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta, 
 Anthere bifide. Cap/. 4-locularis. = a 
Specific Charaéfer and Synonyms. 
ERICA veffita coccinea, mutica foliis fenis linearibus fecundis, 
floribus axillaribus clavatis villofis. Thunb. Prod. — 
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The plant originally introduced to this country, and called 
veflita in the royal gardens at Kew, where it has flowered fince 
the publication of the Hort. Kewenfis is diftinguifhed by its” 
fuperior height, by having its ftems very thickly covered with 
foliage remarkably fine and delicate, fo as to be tremulous on 
the flighteft fhake, and by having bloffoms of a pure white 
colour; fuch is generally underftood to be the original and 
true Erica veffita, — Z 
Unfortunatcly this genus of plants feems to be produétive 
of as many varieties as the Pelargoniums, which are now be- 
come fo numerous that they may faid to be literally “ be- 
“ yond the power of Botanifts to number up their tribes.” __ 
Mr. Lopprees, Nurferyman of Hackney, well known for 
his extenfive colle€tion of plants in general, and of this tribe 
in particular, in the year 1789, railed a crimfon variety of 
this plant from feeds, which, in its general habit, bore a great 
refemblance to the original veffita ; and lately Mr. WILLIAMS, 
Nurferyman, of Turnham-Green, has raifed another variety, 
agreeing with the other in the colour of its flowers, but mo 
diftantly related to the true one :—befides thefe, there is @ 
veftita with purple flowers. — te ee . ee: 
We have given a figure of Mr. Witxirams’s variety, 28 
the plant we had of him (flowering at a more favourable time 
of the year) afforded the beft fpecimen. oe 
In their periods of flowering, thefe feveral varieties are not 
fo regular as fome others, producing their blofloms during 
. moft of the Summer months, and fometimes even in the Winter. 
They are all raifed with difficulty from cuttings, more reagly 
from feeds, by thofe who are accuftomed to it, The Cape, 9 
fertile in heaths, is the fpot which produces them, and 
thence feed may fometimes be obtained. a 
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