ERICA pinifolia. 
DESCRIPTIO, 
Antherje muticae, inclusae. Flores sub apices ra¬ 
morum verticillatim conferti, horizontaliter siti. Pedun¬ 
culi colorati. Corolla clavata, pollicaris, alba, pilis to- 
mentosis densissime circumsessa : oris laciniis revolutis, 
obsolete crenulatis. Folia sena vel octona, linearia, tre¬ 
mula, glabra, subtus sulcata, attenuata in petiolos capil¬ 
lares. Caulis erectus, sesquipedalis, parum Famosus. 
Hamuli simplices, foliis tecti. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers 
grow near the ends of the branches in crowded whorls, 
and in an horizontal direction. Footstalks coloured. 
Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, white, and closely 
beset with downy hairs : the segments of the border 
rolled back, and slightly notched. Leaves by sixes or 
eights, linear, tremulous, and smooth, furrowed be¬ 
neath, and tapering into hair-like footstalks. Stem up¬ 
right, a foot and a half high, branching but little. The 
small branches are simple, and covered with leaves. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from February till July. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empalement magnified. 
2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
4. Seed-bud magnified. 
