ERICA cordata. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anthers muticae, sub-exertse. Flores terminales,, in 
apicibus ramulorum confertissimi, capitati, erecti. Pe¬ 
dunculi breves. Corolla globosa, glabra, albida j laciniis 
limbi rotundatis, patentibus. Folia terna, cordata, pa- 
tentia, marginibus revolutis, supra villosa, subtus lanata. 
Caulis humilis, spithamaeus. Rami et ramuli numerosi, 
conferti, flexuosi, patentes. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers 
terminal, crowded very close together at the ends of 
the branches in upright heads. Footstalks short. Blos¬ 
som globular, smooth, and white. Segments of the 
border round and spreading. Leaves by threes, heart- 
shaped, spreading, and rolled back at the edges, hairy 
on the upper surface, and woolly beneath. Stem low, 
a span high. The large and small branches are nume¬ 
rous, crowded together, flexuose, and spreading. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from April till June. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf magnified. 
2. The empalement and blossom. 
3. The chives and pointal, one lip magnified. 
4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
5. Seed-bud magnified. 
