ERICA viridis. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anthers muticae, inclusae. Flores infra apices ramo¬ 
rum confertim verticillati, horizontales. Corolla cylin¬ 
drica, uncialis, saturate viridis, viscosa, costata, aspe- 
riuscula. Folia sena, linearia, patentia. Caulis fruti¬ 
cosus, erectus. Rami plerumque simplices, erecti et 
rigidi. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers 
grow near the ends of the branches crowdedly whorled, 
and horizontal. Blossom cylindrical, an inch long, of a 
deep green, clammy, ribbed, and roughish. Leaves 
by sixes, linear, and spreading. Stem shrubby, up¬ 
right. The branches are mostly simple, erect, and 
rigid. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from May till September. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf magnified. 
2. The empalement. 
3. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
