ERICA gracilis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Antherje basi bicornes, inclusae. Flores plerumque 
quaterni, in capitulis terminalibus, pedunculis capilla¬ 
ribus. Corolla parva, sub-globosa, laete purpurea, ore 
paululum contracta. Folia quaterna, linearia, tenuia, 
glabra, erecta. Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis; ra¬ 
mulis filiformibus, per-gracilibus, numerosis. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips two-horned at the base, within the blossom. 
Flowers chiefly in fours, in terminal heads with capil¬ 
lary foot stalks. Blossom small, rather globose, bright 
purple, a little contracted at the mouth. Leaves by 
fours, linear, thin, smooth and erect. Stem shrubby, 
a foot and a half high. Branches thread-shaped, very 
slender, and numerous. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from February till May, and again from August 
till October. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empalement magnified. 
2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
