ERICA ruber calvx. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anthers muticae, inclusae. Flores ramulos termi¬ 
nant, plerumque quaterni, patentes. Calyx et pedun¬ 
culus rubri. Corolla maetulaeformis, imprimis alba, 
denique rosacea : oris laciniis erectis. Folia quaterna, 
linearia, erecto-patentia, obtusa, glabra. Caulis frutico¬ 
sus, pedalis. Rami numerosi, flexuosi, filiformes. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate 
the smaller branches, mostly by fours, spreading out. 
Empalement and footstalk red. Blossom skittle-pin¬ 
shaped, white at first, and then dying off a rose colour : 
segments of the border upright. Leaves by fours, 
linear, between erect and spreading, blunt-ended and 
smooth. Stem shrubby, a foot high. Branches nume¬ 
rous, flexuose, and thread-shaped. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom early in Spring, and again in Summer. 
REFERENCE. 
1. Empalement. 
2. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
