ERICA Bauera 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anthers aristatae, inclusae. Flores in medio ramorum, 
spicati. Corolla dependens, sub-pollicaris, cylindracea, 
curvata, imprimis pellucide alba, denique rosacea. Folia 
quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glauca, plerumque patentia. 
Caulis erectus, flexuosus. Rami longi 3 cum ramulis 
binis vel ternis verticillatis. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers grow in 
spikes about the middle of the large branches. Blossom 
hanging down, near an inch long, cylindraceous, in¬ 
flected, at first of a transparent white, afterwards dying 
off of a rose colour. Leaves by fours, linear, blunt, 
glaucous, and mostly spreading. Stem upright, flexuose. 
Branches long 3 with two or three smaller branches in 
whorls. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from August till November. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf. 
2. Empalement. 
3. A chive magnified. 
4 . Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
