ERICA vestita^ rosea 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Antherje muticae, sub-exertae. Flores aggregatim 
verticillati apices versus ramorum robustiorum, pa¬ 
tentes. Corolla clavata, per-rosea, uncialis et ultra. 
Folia plerumque octona, conferta, linearia, obtusa, deor¬ 
sum in petiolos capillares attenuata, et inde eleganter 
tremula. Caulis erectus, ramis longis, simplicibus, 
foliosis. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers 
crowdedly whorled near thfe ends of the stoutest 
branches, and spreading. Blossom club-shaped, of a 
deep rose colour, above an inch long. Leaves chiefly in 
eights, crowded, linear, and blunt, attenuated down¬ 
wards into capillary footstalks, and thence elegantly 
tremulous. Stem upright, with the branches long, 
simple and leafy. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from July 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. 
