EKICAS AXD PELARGONIUMS. 



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telle (Helichrysum fruticosum} is one of those peculiar to the Cape 

 districts. It is in analogous but more sandy localities that those 

 graceful little shrubs, with varied corollas, flourish, which are so 

 popular in England under the name of Ericas, and which frequently 

 exhibit the highest beauty of form and colour. In the engraving is 



VEGETABLE LIFE OF CAPE COLONY. 



1. Pelargonium hederaofolium (Ivy-leaved Geranium). 2. Oxalis rosacea (AVood-Sorrel). 



3. Pelargonium glaucuai. 4. Pelargonium zonale (Zone-leaved Geranium). 



5. Pelargonium tricuspidatum. 



figured the exquisite Erica Cavendishiana, a deservedly great favourite 

 in our English conservatories. There, too, the traveller delightedly 

 examines the almost interminable succession of Pelargoniums, or 

 Geraniums, rich in clusters of delicate bloom, and in exquisitely 

 green foliage. What a blank would their absence leave in our 

 blossomy parterres ! Here arid there he notes dense coppices of the 



