No. 167. 
ERICA PUBESCENS. 
"Die Order. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.. 
This is a neat little plant in-the winter 
season, during which time it continues in 
blossom, sometimes for three or four months; 
and being readily increased, has been very 
generally cultivated. It is a native of the 
Cape of Good Hope, whence it was intro- 
duced, about 1790, by that industrious and 
indefatigable collector, Francis Masson, who, 
according to the Hortus Kewensis, certainly 
sent more plants to this country than ever 
any other individual did. 
