ERICA vestita, incarnata . 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anthers muticae, inclusae. Flores aggregatim verti- 
cillati, supra medium ramulorum. Pedunculi breves, 
bracteis tribus foliiformibus instructi. Corolla clavata, 
uncialis, basin versus albicans, superne laete rosea. Folia 
sena, septena, vel octona, erecta, aggregata, linearia, in 
petiolos capillares deorsum attenuata, et inde perele¬ 
ganter tremulosa. Daulis erectus, bipedalis $ ramis sim¬ 
plicibus. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow 
in crowded whorls, above the middle of the branches. 
Footstalks short, and furnished with three leaf-shaped 
floral leaves. Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, 
whitish towards the base, and upwards of a bright rose 
colour. Leaves by sixes, sevens, or eights, upright, 
crowded, linear, attenuated downwards into capillary 
footstalks, and thence elegantly tremulous. Stem up¬ 
right, two feet high j with simple branches. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope, 
In bloom from May till August. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 
2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified, 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
