No. 633. 
ERICA ODORATA. 
Class. te Order. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYN14. 
This was introduced from the Cape of 
Good Hope about the year 1804: it is an 
extremely delicate and beautiful kind: the 
flowers appear in the beginning of sammer ; 
they are of the purest white, and (which is 
rare in this genus) of a delightful fragrance, 
partaking of that of the rose. The blossoms 
are placed in whorls near the ends of the 
branches, each on a peduncle of twice its 
own length, furnished about the middle with 
two small opposite bractes, anda third near 
the base. The filaments are very short, 
scarcely longer than the germ, which they 
closely surround: the style is twice their 
length, reaching nearly to the mouth of the 
corolla. 
It is propagated with much difficulty by 
cuttings, but sometimes bears seed here, 
by which it may be more advantageously 
increased : the soil must be sandy peat, and 
the treatment as advised for the other kinds. 
