ERICA Solandroides. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anthers aristatee, sub-exertse. Flores in ramis termi¬ 
nales, eapitatim aggregati, cernui. Corolla subcylin- 
dracea, parva, albens. Folia plerumque quaterna, ob¬ 
tusa, linearia, pilosa, recta, adscendentia: seniora pa¬ 
tentia. Caulis sesquipedalis : ramis longis, simplicibus, 
erectis, vel flexuosis. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips bearded, and just without the blossom. Flowers 
terminate the branches in crowded heads, nodding. Blos¬ 
som nearly cylindrical, tmall, and of a whitish colour. 
Leaves mostly by fours, obtuse, linear, hairy, straight, 
and ascending : the older ones spreading. Stem a foot 
and half high : the branches are long, simple, upright or 
flexuose. 
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Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from April till July. 
REFERENCE. 
1. Empalement magnified. 
2. A flower. 
3. A chive magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
