ERICA serpyllifolia. 
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. 
Erica antheris muticis inclusis : stylo exerto: 
stigmate magno : foliis ternatis : caule debili, 
fruticoso. 
DESCRIPTIO. 
Caulis subpedalis, tenuis : ramis et ramulis 
filiformibus, numerosis, flexuosis. 
Folia terna, cordata, patentia, supra subpla- 
na, setis minutis instructa, subtus glauca, mar- 
ginibus revolutis. 
Flores terni vel seni, in ramos terminant: co¬ 
rolla parva, campanulata, pallide carnea: stigma¬ 
te magno, patente, tetragono, peltato, incluso. 
Germen tiarseforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad 
basin nectariis melliferis instructum. 
Habitat ad Caput Bonae Spei. 
Floret a mense Julii ad Novembrem. 
REFERENTIA. 
1. Folium. 
2. Idem auctum. 
3. Corolla. 
4. Eadem aucta. 
5. Stamen et Pistillum. 
6. Eadem lente aucta. 
7. Germen auctum. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Heath with beardless tips within the blossom : 
shaft without : summit large : leaves ternate : 
stem weak and shrubby. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Stem near a foot high and slender : the large 
and smaller branches are thread-shaped, nume¬ 
rous, and flexuose. 
Leaves by threes, heart-shaped, and spread¬ 
ing, nearly flat on their upper surface, and fur¬ 
nished with minute setae or bristles ; glaucous 
beneath, with the edges rolled back. 
Flowers grow by threes or sixes, terminating 
the branches : blossom small, bell-shaped, and of 
a pale flesh-colour : stigma large, spreading, 
with four corners, inclosed in a shield. 
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, villose, 
and furnished at the base with honey-bearing 
nectaries. 
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 
Flowers from July till November. 
REFERENCE. 
1. A leaf. 
2. The same magnified. 
3. A blossom. 
4. The same magnified. 
3. Chive and Pointal. 
6. The same magnified. 
7. Seed-bud magnified. 
The Erica serpyllifolia resembles two very opposed and distinct species of Heaths, the E. thy mi- 
folia and E. peltata. The former similarly nomenclated ; resembling the latter in shape, colour, 
abundance of flowers, and enlarged stigma, the expansion of which is so rare and peculiar to the 
E. peltata; and is also a most prominent feature in the physiology of the present figure, but when 
out of bloom; and the Ericas tliymifolia and jnaryfolia are the only species that can claim the least 
affinity. 
It was first raised from Cape seed at the nursery of Messrs. Loddiges, Hackney. Our draw¬ 
ing is from a plant at Mr. Lee's, in the summer of 1826. 
