ERICA PSEU’DO-VESTITA. 
~ CLOTHED HYBRID HEATH. 
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GENUS. Erica. Linvzus. ines aualie profunde os se se- 
pius qua adriparti tus. Coro.xua tubulo: , cam 
ulata vel globosa, limbo brevi quadrifido, ‘erecto recurvo este eat Habba: 
CALYCIFLORE, 
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DECANDOLLE. 
uloso inserta. FILaMENTA libera vel —— ee ha. ANTHERE 
cristatisve aucte vel mutice. Ovarium pel bt ‘paul pluriovulatis, 
vel quadrifi APSULA S seaumeeag aie a pana’ alvi vis. ae in 
loculis pera ee tig Fror p Pp 
tro-Africanez. ius li ia rigid — 
ICELLI uniflori axillares vel terminales tribracteati, 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, Ertca. Caxyx deeply four-cleft, or 
more frequently divided into four distinct sepals of equal size. Co- 
ROLLA tubular, salver-shaped, pitcher-shaped, bell-shaped, or globular, 
with a short four-cleft limb, which is erect, recurved, rolled back, or 
spreading. STAMENs eight, or rarely six or seven, inserted under an 
hypogynous disk, which is frequently glandular. Fmaments free, or 
slightly monadelphous. ANTHERS terminal or lateral, with or without 
two subulate or crest-shaped appendages at the insertion of the fila- 
ments. Ovary four-celled, each cell with many ovules. Styx 
filiform. StiemMa capitate, or sometimes broad and peltate, entire 
or four-lobed. CapsuLe four-celled, splitting through the middle 
of the cells into four valves. SeEps numerous in each cell, attached 
to central placentz. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE CLOTHED HYBRID HeatH. An erect shrub, 
having much the appearance of the smaller varieties of Erica vestita. 
BrancHeEs smooth, densely covered with leaves. Leaves subulate, 
about half an inch long, smooth, six or more in a whorl. FLowers 
drooping, growing one, two, or three together, at the end of the axillary 
branches, shorter than the leaves, which gives the appearance of an 
irregular spike below the extremity of the branches. Bracrs linear, 
