No. 4. 
ERICA PALUSTRIS. 
Class. Order. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Å neat little species from the Cape; which 
has been introduced within these eight or 
ten years, and flowers in very great profusion 
in September and October, sometimes con- 
tinuing almost to the end of the year. The 
great family to which this belongs, mostly 
growing in mountainous and open situations, 
where, at certain seasons, they are exposed 
to violent winds, are naturally impatient of 
confinement : on this account the more fresh 
air is admitted to them, even in the winter 
difficulty of preserving these most beautiful 
plants. 
