unequal in length, much shorter than the sepals, and at some distance 
from them. Sepats about three lines long, shortly ovate at the base, 
keeled, with a membranous margin, and terminating in a long subulate, 
green, and leaf-like point. Coroua seven or eight lines long, pink, 
with a whitish limb, tubular, straight or slightly curved, slightly 
swelling in the middle or above it, and scarcely contracted at the 
top, perfectly smooth, and obscurely ribbed; the limb short, somewhat 
spreading. ANTHERS at the throat of the corolla with subulate appen- 
ages. Svy.e rather longer than the corolla, with a rather large 
capitate stigma. Ovary turbinate, ribbed, woolly. 
Poputar aNp Geocrapuicat Notice. This is one of those innu- 
merable artificial hybrids, which are almost daily added to this splen- 
did tribe by our indefatigable horticulturists; and which appear in our 
catalogues as natives of the Cape of Good Hope, where, indeed, their 
ancestors grew, but where it would be in vain to search for anything 
like these their degenerate, though beautiful, descendants. There 
ms no reason to suspect that a single Heath, naturally hybrid, 
has ever been found in a wild state; and as it appears absolutely 
necessary that the same artificial process which produces them, should 
be made use of to enable them to mature their seeds, their repug- 
nancy to the regular laws of nature is as clearly demonstrated in the 
case of this genus as in that of any other. With regard to the origin 
of the individual here figured, it is evident that Erica vestita, with 
which it has so much affinity, must have been one of the parents. The 
other one may, perhaps, have been selected from amongst the tubular 
species with terminal flowers and awned anthers; or, more probably, 
from some one of the already numerous hybrids between Erica vestita 
and Erica ventricosa. Ge B. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. This beautiful vari- 
ety of Heath was raised from seed by Mr. Thomas Williams, gardener 
to John Williams, Esq. of Oldford, Staffordshire; and is one amongst 
many hundred varieties raised by the same ienledatignble cultivator. 
The generating, as it may be termed, numerous attractive plants, like 
that which we now figure, may be counted amongst the benefits accru- 
ing to society by the united zeal of a liberal proprietor and intelligent 
tdener. With the description of another beautiful variety of Heath, 
raised at Oldford, we intend giving some original observations on the 
culture of these plants. 
Derivation or THE Name. 
Iresien Ou a supposition that it was some species of this genus that Pliny 
meant by his Erica; oe Dioscorides or Theophrastns ‘by their 4 — PsEvpo- 
vestiTA, false vesti rica vestita, 
a name not eden, it is true, to the rules of betanieat® nomenclature 
but well suited to a garden hybrid, — which a good botanical name, in 
numerous a genus, would be thrown aw: 
