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ERICA ODORATA. PERFUMED HEATH. 
Clafs and Order. 
OcTANDRIA MonocyNIaA. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. perfiftens: limbo 4-fido. Anthere ante 
anthefin per foramina duo Jateralia connexe. Cap/. 4—8-locu- 
laris, 4—8-valvis. 
Specific Charaéter and Synonyms. 
ERICA odorata (Breviflora. Corolla tubus fubglobofus.) brac- 
teis a calyce remotis, antheris muticis. Hort, Kew. 
ed. 2. VU. 2. P. 391- 
ERICA odorata. Andrews’s Heaths, vol. 3. 
In the divifion to which it belongs, this is the only fpecies 
which has no appendix at the apex of the filament. The 
leaves grow by fours, but often fo crowded together that their 
order is not readily difcernible. 
- The Erica odorata is altogether one of the moft defirable of 
the genus, both from the elegant waving of its delicate white 
flowers, lightly fupported on flender footftalks, and its charming 
fcent fomewhat refembling a compound of rofes and honey- 
fuckles. 
Flowers in the fpring. Native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
whence it was introduced to this ‘country by Joun WEDGE- 
woop, Efq. in 1784. Our drawing was taken from a plant 
communicated by Mr. Knicut, Nurferyman, King’s-Road, 
Little Chelfea, 
