ERICA tenuiflora, alba. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Anthers muticae, inclusae. Flores ad apices ramulo- 
rum quaterni, pedunculis brevibus. Corolla tubaeformis, 
tenuissima : oris laciniis acuminatis, patentibus, albican» 
tibus : tubo pellucido. Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, 
glabra, erecto-patentia. Caulis fruticosus, debilis, pe¬ 
dalis et ultra. Rami et ramuli filiformes, virgati. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow 
by fours at the ends of the small branches. Footstalks 
short. Blossom trumpet-shaped, and very slender. The 
segments of the border are sharp-pointed, spreading, and 
very white. The tube is of a transparent white. Leaves 
By fours, linear, blunt, smooth, and between erect and 
spreading. Stem shrubby, weak, a foot or more high. 
The large and small branches are thread-shaped, and 
twiggy. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
In bloom from July till December. 
REFERENCE. 
1. The empalement magnified. 
2^ Chives and pointal, summit magnified. 
3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 
4. The seed-bud magnified. 
