No. 895. 
ERICA STELLATA. 
Class, Order. 
OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Thìs is a bushy thick growing species, 
having woolly leaves and small flowers 
‘in a spreading form like the 
points of a star: it blooms during the 
spring months, and requires the airy green- 
house; should be potted in sandy peat, 
and may be increased by cuttings. It isa 
native of the Cape, aud was introduced 
country and the res 
for the introduction, preservation, and 
diffusion of more plants, than to any one 
who ever lived. Unequalled in talent and 
i energy of mind, his ardour for the 
ion of which he was such a distin- 
0 
the progress of a mortal disease. It may 
his removal has left a 
truly be said that 
