ERICA lanuginosa. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anthers aristatae, inclusae. Flores axillares, saepe 
solitarii, subsessiles. Corolla ovata, ad basin inflata, 
apice acuta, tomentosa, albido-lutescens, basi fusco-pur- 
purascens. Folia terna, linearia, lanata, ciliata, patentes. 
Caulis humilis, robustus, sub-pedalis, fruticosus 5 ramis 
numerosis, plerumque simplicibus. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers axillary, 
often solitary, nearly sessile. Blossom egg-shaped, swelled 
at the base, and pointed at the end, downy, of a dingey 
yellow white, and of a purply brown at the base. Leaves 
by threes, linear, with woolly hair, and spreading. Stem 
low, stout, scarce a foot high, shrubby. The branches 
are numerous, and mostly simple. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from October till January 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empalement magnified. 
2. A blossom. 
8. The same spread open. 
4. The chives and pointah 
5. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
