ERICA pellucida. 
DESCRIPTIO® 
Antherje muticae, inclusae. Flores in ramulis termi¬ 
nales, plerumque quaterni, cernui. Pedunculi longi, 
glandulosi, bracteis tribus lanceolatis, glandulosis, in* 
structi. Corolla tubulato-ventricosa, pilosa, costata, alba, 
et pellucida j limbi laciniis semi-orbicularibus, sub-erectis. 
Folia quaterna, lanceolata, lucida, aculeata, sulco exarata, 
Caulis gracilis, sesquipedalis, hirsutus. Rami et ramuli 
hirsuti, flexuosi. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers ter* 
minate the small branches mostly by fours, nodding. 
Footstalks long, glandular, and furnished with three 
lance-shaped, glandular floral leaves. Blossom of an 
inflated tubular form, hairy, ribbed, white, and trans¬ 
parent. The segments of the border are half round, 
and nearly upright. Leaves by fours, lance-shaped, 
shining, prickly, and deeply furrowed beneath. Stem 
slender, a foot and a half high, harshly haired. The 
large and small branches are hirsute and flexuose. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from November till June. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empalement magnified. 
2, A chive magnified. 
8. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
