ERICA penicillata. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Antherje muticae, exertae, longissimae. Flores soli¬ 
tarii, penduli, medio ramorum spicati. Pedunculi colo¬ 
rati, longi. Corolla conica, purpurea 3 laciniis minutis, 
erectis, luteo-virentibus. Folia tema, linearia, fascicu¬ 
lata, glabra, patentia. Caulis erectus, fruticosus, sub- 
bipedalis. Rami sub-simplices 3 ramuli conferti. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, without the blossom, and very long. 
Flowers grow solitary, hanging down, making a spike 
from the middle of the branches. Footstalks coloured, 
and long. Blossom conical, and purple. Segments 
small, upright, and of a greenish yellow. Leaves by 
threes, linear, bundled, smooth, and spreading. Stem 
upright, shrubby, near two feet high. Branches nearly 
simple 3 smaller branches crowded. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from May till August. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empalement. 
2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
