Chapter I: Part 1

COLOURED

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OF

HEATHS.

Coloured Engravings

OF

HEATHS.

THE

DRAWINGS

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LIVING PLANTS ONLY.

WITH

THE APPROPRIATE SPECIFIC CHARACTER, FULL DESCRIPTION, NATIVE PLACE
OF GROWTH, AND TIME OF FLOWERING OF EACH;

In Latin and English.

EACH FIGURE ACCOMPANIED BY ACCURATE DISSECTIONS OF THE SEVERAL
PARTS (MAGNIFIED WHERE NECESSARY) UPON WHICH THE
SPECIFIC DISTINCTION HAS BEEN FOUNDED,

ACCORDING TO THE

LINNÆAN SYSTEM.

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VOL. IV.

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1805.

ERICA Andromedæflora, _alba_.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis: stylo sub-incluso: floribus axillaribus, declinatis: foliis ternatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS humilis, fruticosus, robustus, pedalis: rami numerosi, conferti.

FOLIA ternata, subulata, incurvata, robusta: petiolis longis adpressis.

FLORES axillares, sub-terminales, declinati, conferti: calyx magnus, lato-ovatus, albus: corolla ovata, crassa, alba: oris laciniis erectis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, villosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Martii ad Junium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Corolla.

3. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with crested tips, within the blossom: shaft just within: flowers axillary, and bending down: leaves by threes.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM low, shrubby, and strong, a foot high: branches numerous, and crowded together.

LEAVES by threes, awl-shaped, incurved, and stout, with long footstalks pressed to the branches.

FLOWERS grow from the axillæ of the leaves, nearly terminal, hanging down, and crowded together: empalement large, broadly egg-shaped, and white: blossom ovate, thick, and white: segments of the border straight.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, villose, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from March till June.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Blossom.

3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

5. Seed-bud magnified.

THIS white-flowered variety of the E. _Andromedæflora_, from its hardy, dwarf, and robust character, might almost be considered as a distinct species, did not the appearance and shape of the blossoms bear out the specific title too well to admit of any alteration. The flowers are slow in growth, and of a thickish and rather tough consistence. It is a hardy green-house shrub, and blossoms mostly during the spring season.

ERICA argentiflora.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus horizontaliter verticillatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, sesquipedalis, ramis simplicibus.

FOLIA sena, linearia, apice leviter incurvata, supra plana, subtus sulcata.

FLORES horizontaliter verticillati prope ramorum summitatem: corolla clavata, uncialis, oris laciniis patentibus.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Junii ad Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

3. German et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers growing horizontally in whorls.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, upright, a foot and half high: branches simple.

LEAVES by sixes, linear, slightly turned inward towards the end, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath.

FLOWERS grow horizontally in whorls near the summit of the branches: blossom club-shaped, an inch long: segments of the border spreading.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from June till October.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

THE flowers of the Erica _argentiflora_ are of a delicate transparent white, most difficult to imitate on a white ground. Our drawing was made from a plant in the summer of 1814 at the Hammersmith Nursery, where it flowered with abundance of light graceful blossoms, that continued successively from June till October. But the precise time of any of the Ericas flowering is quite indefinite. I have frequently seen many species in full bloom in one collection, and out of flower in others. Where they are indigenous, their periods of inflorescence are no doubt much more determinable than they can ever be in such a versatile clime as Britain, under different modes of culture.

ERICA aristata, _minor_.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus quaternis, ampullaceis, viscosis: foliis ternis, confertis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS erectus, fruticosus, pedalis et ultra: ramulis plerumque ternis, verticillatis.

FOLIA ternata, sub-trigona, supra plana; subtus sulco-exarata; margine pilis longis obsita.

FLORES quaterni, patentes: corolla basi inflata, apice attenuata, ima parte rubra, in media alba, summa saturate purpurea, glutinosissima et lucida: laciniis oris patentibus: calycis foliolis lanceolatis, barbatis, adpressis.

GERMEN columnæforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Junii in Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

2. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

3. Flos varietas rubra.

4. Flos varietas subalbida.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers grow by fours, are flask-shaped, and viscous: leaves by threes, crowded together.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM upright, shrubby, a foot or more high: branches grow mostly by threes, in whorls.

LEAVES by threes, nearly three-sided, flat on their upper surface, and deeply furrowed beneath; the margins are beset with long hairs.

FLOWERS grow by fours, spreading: the blossom is swelled at the base, and tapers to the point, red on the lower part, white in the centre, and of a deep purple towards the end, very glutinous, and shining: the segments of the border are spreading: the leaflets of the cup are lance-shaped, bearded, and pressed to the blossom.

SEED-BUD pillar-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from June till October.

REFERENCE.

1. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

2. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

3. Flower of a red variety.

4. Flower of a pale variety.

AMONGST cultivators, this plant bears the specific titles of aristata minor, and tricolor; neither of them very appropriate, as it does not possess three distinct colours; nor can it with propriety be considered as a variety of the E. aristata: but as it is well known by that appellation, we have retained it. There are two variations of it at present in cultivation with us; a flower of each is given, with the dissections. The pale-flowered variety is from the conservatory of the Marquis of Blandford, and we have not as yet seen it in any other collection. It appears to be a plant of easy culture, and was raised from Cape seed about the year 1806.

ERICA Bandonia.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris muticis, inclusis: stylo exerto: floribus terminalibus: pedunculis longissimis: foliis ternis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS pedalis, fruticosus: rami et ramuli erecto-patentes.

FOLIA terna, trigona, subulata, recta; supra plana subtus carinato.

FLORES terminales in umbellis, quinis vel decem, cum pedunculis longissimis rubris: corollis urceolatis: oris laciniis patentes equalis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii in Septembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

3. Germen et Pistillum stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom: shaft without flowers, terminal: footstalks very long: leaves by threes.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot high, shrubby; small and large branches between; erect and spreading.

LEAVES by threes, three-sided, awl-shaped, and straight; flat on their upper surface, and keeled beneath.

FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels of five to ten, with very long red footstalks: blossom pitcher-shaped: segments of the border spreading and equal.

SEED-BUD turban shaped, with honey bearing nectaries at the base.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from July till September.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

THIS Erica, named in honour of Lord Bandon, was raised from Cape seed at the Hammersmith Nursery. It is rather a dwarf, shrubby plant, with numerous flowers, the blossoms resemble the E. Ventricosa; the great length of the flower-stalks, are like the E. Irbyana, as is also the foliage, which likewise bear a similitude to the leaves of the E. taxifolia; but altogether it is perfectly distinct from any one hitherto delineated, and makes a brilliant appearance towards the autumn.

ERICA Bauera.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus spicatis, axillaribus, dependentibus: foliis quaternis: caule erecto.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS erectus, flexuosus; ramis longis, cum ramulis binis vel ternis, verticillatis.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glauca, plerumque patentia.

FLORES in medio ramorum, spicati: corollis dependentibus, subpollicaribus, cylindraceis, curvatis, pellucide albidis: pedunculis longis, bracteis tribus instructis.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Augusti ad Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium.

2. Idem subtus.

3. Calyx.

4. Stamen unum lente auctum.

5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with bearded tips within the blossom: flowers grow in spikes from the axillæ of the leaves, hanging down: leaves by fours: stem upright.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM upright and flexuose: the large branches are long, with smaller branches of two or three in whorls.

LEAVES by fours, linear, obtuse, glaucous, and mostly spreading.

FLOWERS grow in spikes about the middle of the larger branches: blossoms hanging down, nearly an inch long, cylindrical, curved, of a transparent white: peduncles long, and furnished with three floral leaves.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from August till November.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf.

2. The same shown from the under side.

3. The Empalement.

4. A Chive magnified.

5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

WE found this new species of Erica in bloom at the Hammersmith Nursery in the autumn of 1823, under the specific title of _Bauera_, in compliment to Mr. Bauer, Botanic Draftsman to the Royal Gardens at Kew. Throughout this extensive Genus of plants, we do not know any one it resembles at present: but in three or four years time the case may be different, Mr. Lee having a collector now in the interior of the Cape in search of novelties; and should his attempt in exploring that botanic mine prove successful, we may expect an importation of many distinct species and beautiful varieties.

ERICA Beaumontia.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA muticis inclusis; floribus campanulatis; cernuis, foliis linearia glandulosa; caule fruticoso.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS sub pedalis, fruticosus, ramis et ramulis flexuosis.

FOLIA plerumque quaterna, linearia, patentia, obtusa, supra plana, subtus sulcata: marginibus glandulosus.

FLORES in ultimis ramulis terminales ternis vel senis, pedunculi, rubri: corolla campanulata, cernui, magna alba: oris laciniis revolutis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum: ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Maii in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium auctum.

2. Calyx.

3. Stamina et pistillum.

4. Stamen, antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

5. Germen et pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers bell-shaped, nodding: leaves linear and glandular: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM near a foot high, shrubby: the large and smaller branches flexuose.

LEAVES mostly by fours, linear, spreading and obtuse, nearly flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath: with glandular margins.

FLOWERS terminate the ends of the smaller branches in threes or sixes, footstalk, red: blossom bell-shaped, nodding, large and white: segments of border rolled back.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped and furrowed; furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of May till July.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf magnified.

2. The Empalement.

3. Chives and pointal.

4. A Chive, one tip magnified.

5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

THIS fine new species of Erica was raised from Cape seed last Autumn, 1827, and flowered the ensuing Summer for the first time at the Nursery of Messrs. Rollinson, Lower Tooting. We have named it after Mrs. Beaumont, of Bretton Hall, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, a great admirer of this fine genus of plants. The only heath throughout this extensive family, to which it bears any resemblance, is the E. odorata. It is a handsome dwarf shrub, flowering freely during the months of May and June.

ERICA colorans.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus spicatis, confertis: foliis quaternis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, erectus, pedalis et ultra: ramuli numerosi, breves, tomentosi.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, tomentosa, obtusa.

FLORES fere ramos terminant, racemum longum densum formantes: corolla tubulato-campanulata, diaphana, imprimis alba, denique saturate rosacea.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Martii in Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: flowers grow in crowded spikes: leaves by fours.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, upright, a foot or more high: the smaller branches are numerous, short, and downy.

LEAVES by fours, linear, downy, and blunt-ended.

FLOWERS nearly terminate the branches, making a long close bunch: blossom tubularly bell-shaped, transparent, white at first, and then dying off of a deep rose colour.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from March till August.

REFERENCE.

1. Calyx.

2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

THIS Erica may be considered as an elegant but distinct variety of the E. _Linnæa_. It is well known by the specific title of _colorans_, in reference to the rich red colour the flowers acquire as the blossoms decay, which gives a very singular motley appearance to the plant. It continues a long time in successive bloom; and requires a dry airy situation in the green-house, to protect its small crowded downy foliage from the atmospheric damps too prevalent in this climate.

ERICA Comptoniana.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris aristatis minutis, inclusis, stylo sub-incluso: floribus in umbellis terminalibus: foliis ternis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis et ultra: rami et ramuli filiformes, adscendentes.

FOLIA ternata, curvata, subulata, acuta.

FLORES ramos terminant, plerumque in umbellis 3-6; calyx adpressus, pedunculis longis: corolla urceolata, erecto-patens, rubro-purpurea: oris laciniis æqualibus, patentibus.

GERMEN columnare, tenue, bicoloratum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Martii in Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx lente auctus.

2. Folium lente auctum.

3. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with minutely bearded tips, within; shaft just within the blossom: flowers grow in terminal umbels: leaves by threes.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, a foot or more high: the small and large branches are thread-shaped and ascending.

LEAVES by threes, curved, awl-shaped, and sharp-pointed.

FLOWERS terminate the branches, mostly in umbels of 3 to 6: empalement pressed to the blossom: footstalks long: blossom pitcher-shaped, erect, and spreading, of a red purple colour: segments of the border equal and spreading.

SEED-BUD pillar-shaped, slender, and two-coloured.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of March till August.

REFERENCE.

1. Empalement magnified.

2. A Leaf magnified.

3. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

5. Seed-bud magnified.

THIS fine new species of Erica we have named in honour of the Countess of Northampton, a great admirer and encourager of botanic science. Our drawing was made from plants in the Hammersmith collection, raised from Cape seed about the year 1815. Like many other species, we have found it in bloom in every season of the year; but the most general period of inflorescence for the whole genus is from the middle of spring till the beginning of autumn.

ERICA costata, _superba_.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: stylo exerto: floribus terminalibus ternatis: caule erecto.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS bipedalis, fruticosus, erectus, ramosus: ramuli frequentissimi, longi.

FOLIA caulina terna, linearia obtusa, pubescentia: folia ramentacea erectiora, hirsuta.

FLORES in ramulis terminalibus plerumque terni, subcernui: corolla cylindrico-clavata, pollicari, pallide carnea, costata: oris laciniis luteo-albentibus.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Maio ad Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Anthera una, summitate lente aucta.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

4. Germen lente auctum.

5. Flos varietatis monstrosæ.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossom: shaft without: flowers terminate the branches by threes: stem upright.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM two feet high, shrubby, upright, and branching: small branches numerous and long.

LEAVES on the stem by threes, linear obtuse, and downy: those on the smaller branches are more upright, and hirsute.

FLOWERS terminate the branches, mostly by threes, nearly drooping: blossom cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long, of a pale flesh colour, and ribbed: segments of the border of a whitish yellow.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of May till July.

REFERENCE.

1. Empalement.

2. A Chive, summit magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud magnified.

5. Flower of a monstrous variety.

THIS delicate-flowered Heath was raised at the Hammersmith Nursery in the summer of 1820, under the specific title of E. costata, _superba_ (said to be raised from the seed of the E. costata). There were two plants of it that flowered: one tall, the other short and bushy. We preferred the tall one, being the finest and most in flower, but have given a flower from the other plant, which differed a little in shape, and had also two blossoms on it, like the one represented, a kind of monstrosity that sometimes occurs. Upon dissecting the other, we found all the anthers surmounted by the appearance of an increasing petal, and they seemed to have been produced solely at the expense of their fertility, as the absence of the pollen was all the difference we could discern, neither the shape nor colour having suffered any alteration.

ERICA Coventrya.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris muticis, inclusis: foliis quaternis, confertis: floribus sessilibus, fasciculatis terminalibus: frutex pygmæus.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS humilis, fruticosus: ramuli numerosi adapice ramis conferti.

FOLIA plerumque, quarterna, linearia, supra plana subtus sulcata.

FLORES sessiles, fascisculatis terminales: corollis ventricosus, rubris, lacinis cordatis, expansio, albis, subtus læte rubris.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis meliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii in Septembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Corolla.

3. Stamina et Pistullum.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom: leaves by fours, crowded: flowers sessile, terminating the branches in bunches: a dwarf shrub.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM low, shrubby: smaller branches are numerous and crowded together at the end of the larger branches.

LEAVES mostly grow by fours, linear, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath.

FLOWERS sessile, in terminal bunches: blossom bellied and red, the segments of the border are heart-shaped, spreading, and white; of a bright red on the under side.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, with honey bearing nectaries at the base.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from July till September.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Blossom.

3. The Chives and Pointal.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

This Erica resembles the E. primuloides in its foliage, also in the shape and colour of the blossom, but differs greatly in the manner of its growth, as the flowers, in this plant, terminate the branches in complex umbells, more like the genus Daphne than Erica.

It is one of those fine seminal varieties raised from Cape seed at the Hammersmith Nursery, and received its specific title in honour of the Earl of Coventry.

ERICA crassifolia.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris muticis inclusis; floribus terminalibus; corolla campanulata; folia terna; caulis fruticosus.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS humilis, fruticosus; rami et ramuli flexuosi.

FOLIA terna, oblonga, fere rotunda, brevia, carnosa, glauca, patentia et adscendentia.

FLORES ramulos subterminantes, plerumque terni; corolla campanulata, rosea, oris laciniis cordatis, reflexis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Aprili in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium, lente auctum.

2. Calyx, lente auctus.

3. Stamina et Pistillum.

4. Stamen unum, lente auctum.

5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucta.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers terminal; blossom bell-shaped; leaves by threes; stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM low, shrubby, the large and smaller branches flexuose.

LEAVES by threes, oblong, roundish, short, fleshy, glaucous, spreading, and ascending.

FLOWERS nearly terminate the smaller branches, mostly by threes; blossom bell-shaped, rose-coloured; segments of the border heart-shaped, and reflexed.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of April till July.

REFERENCE.

1. A leaf, magnified.

2. Empalement, magnified.

3. Chives and Pointal.

4. One Chive, magnified.

5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

THE Erica crassifolia is a perfectly new species, raised last summer from Cape seed, at Messrs. Rollinson’s, Lower Tooting. It is a low bushy shrub, possessing a smooth handsome foliage, of a thick and fleshy appearance; by no means common to the genus, and therefore will not be very difficult to distinguish either in, or out of bloom. Flowers during the months of May and June.

ERICA cruciformis.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris bicornibus, inclusis: floribus quaternis, tubulosis, brevibus: foliis quaternis, brevibus, linearibus: caule fruticoso, erecto.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS pedalis, fruticosus: ramulis numerosis, confertis.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia obtusa, glabra, supra plana, subtus sulcata.

FLORES quaterni, cruciformes: ramulis plerumque terminalibus: corolla urceolata, aurantia, lucida: laciniis rotundatis, reflexis.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Junio ad Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamen unicum lente auctum.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

4. Germen lente auctum.

5. Flores varietatum duarum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with tips two-horned, within the blossom: flowers grow by fours, tubular, short and linear: stem shrubby and upright.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot high, and shrubby: the smaller branches numerous and crowded.

LEAVES by fours, linear obtuse, and smooth, flat on the upper surface, and furrowed beneath.

FLOWERS grow by fours, cross-shaped, mostly terminating the smaller branches: blossom jar-shaped, of a gold colour, and shining: segments of the border rounded and reflexed.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of June till August.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Chive magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud magnified.

5. Flowers of two varieties.

OUR drawing of this handsome little Erica was made at the nursery of Mr. Lee in the summer of 1819, where it had been recently raised from seed, with two others of a similar description too nearly allied to require a separate figure. We have therefore added a flower of each, and hardly knew to which of the three plants to give the preference. But as the specific title cruciformis was given to them, we selected that for our figure whose inflorescence bore out the name with the most uniformity.

ERICA droseroides, _minor_.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis: floribus terminalibus, cernuis: foliis ternatis: caule fruticoso, erecto.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS spithamæus, fruticosus: ramis filiformibus, sparsis, erectis, patentibus, virgatis.

FOLIA terna, linearia, obtusa, marginibus pilis glandulosis, micantibus.

FLORES in umbellis terminalibus, cernui: corolla urceolata, læte purpurea, costata, viscosa: ore obliquo, arctato, profunde sanguineo: pedunculi longissimi pilis glandulosis tecti.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii in Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folii pars inferior lente aucta.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Anthera una lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with crested tips within the blossom; flowers terminal and nodding; leaves by threes; stem shrubby and upright.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a span high and shrubby: branches long, scattered, erect, spreading, and twiggy.

LEAVES by threes, linear and blunt, with shining glandular hairs on the margins.

FLOWERS grow in terminal umbels, nodding: blossom pitcher-shaped, of a bright purple colour, ribbed and clammy: the mouth is oblique, narrowed, and of a deep blood colour: footstalks very long, and covered with glandular hairs.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of July till October.

REFERENCE.

1. The under side of a Leaf magnified.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. A Chive magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

OUR figure represents an entire plant from the Hammersmith Nursery, raised from seed in the autumn of 1820, after an absence of fifteen years; during which period we believe it has been lost to every collection we are acquainted with. It can only be retained by care and attention to preserve it from damp, of which it is much more susceptible than the generality of this extended genus.

ERICA dumosa.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, exertis: floribus terminalibus, pendulis: pedunculis longissimis: foliis ternatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS humilis, fruticosus: ramis numerosis, filiformibus.

FOLIA ternata, ovata, hispida, patentia, margine revoluta, subtus glauca.

FLORES terminales in umbellis: corolla pendula, urceolata, purpurea: pedunculis patentibus, longissimis, tenuibus.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, tomentosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii ad Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium auctum.

2. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

4. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, without the blossom: flowers terminal and pendulous: footstalks very long: leaves by threes.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM low, shrubby: branches numerous and thread-shaped.

LEAVES by threes, ovate, hispid, and spreading, rolled back at the edges, and glaucous beneath.

FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels: blossom pendulous, pitcher-shaped, and purple: footstalks spreading, very long, and slender.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, downy, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of July till November.

REFERENCE.

1. A leaf magnified.

2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud magnified.

THE Erica _dumosa_ is one of those few species whose rude exterior differs from the leading feature of neatness and uniformity so prevalent throughout this extensive family of plants. It is a dwarf shrub, with crowded irregular branches and coarse foliage, but possessing bright purple flowers on very long peduncles. By some cultivators it is called _longipedunculata_, a little more descriptive than specific, and which might be confounded with the E. _pedunculata_. But as a low bushy shrub it may easily be recognised by the unoccupied title of _dumosa_. Our figure represents an entire plant raised from seed at the Hammersmith Nursery in 1815. It requires rather more attention than usual, to prevent the long slender footstalks of the flowers from being too powerfully influenced by the atmosphere, which sometimes gives them a very disordered appearance.

ERICA Echiflora, _purpurea_.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis inclusis: floribus terminalibus, tubulosis et costatis: foliis linearis confertis: caule fruticoso.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, sesquipedalis: ramis et ramulis flexuosis.

FOLIA irregulariter verticillati, quina vel sena, linearia: undulata, patentia.

FLORES in umbellis confertis, horizontales: corolla tubulosa, purpurea, brevis, inflata, costata: laciniis patentibus cordatis, pedunculi brevi.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum: ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Autumnales.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium auctum.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Flos.

4. Stamen et pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

5. Germen et pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

6. Germen auctum.

7. Flos varietas.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers terminal, tubular, and ribbed; leaves linear and crowded: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, a foot and half high: the large and smaller branches flexuose.

LEAVES grow in irregular whorls, of fives and sixes: waved and spreading.

FLOWERS grow in umbels, crowded and horizontal: blossom tubular, purple, short, inflated, and ribbed: segments of the border heart-shaped and spreading: footstalks short.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers during the Autumnal months.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf magnified.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. A Flower.

4. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified.

5. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.

6. Seed-bud magnified.

7. Flower of a variety.

THIS handsome shrub differs not only in the colour of its flowers from the E. Echiflora, figured in Vol. 3, but also in its foliage, which are much smaller, thinner, and closer together. It bears numerous bright purple blossoms, crowded together at the ends of the branches; there are two slight varieties, one of a paler colour, and the other longer in the flower and curved, a flower of which is given with the dissections. Our figure was made from plants in the Hammersmith Collection.

ERICA exsurgens hybrida.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris muticis, exsertis: floribus verticillatis: foliis senis: caule erecto.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS sesquipedalis, erectus: ramis et ramulis longis, simplicibus.

FOLIA sena, conferta, tenuia, linearia, adscendentia: pedunculi longissimi.

FLORES in medio ramorum, verticillati, recti, verticillis alter alteri exsurgentibus: corolla clavata, cylindracea, uncialis, curvata, carnea: oris laciniis magnis, revolutis, intus subalbidis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret per menses autumnales.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

4. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with beardless tips without the blossom; flowers grow in whorls; leaves by sixes; stem upright.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot and half high, upright; the large and smaller branches, long and simple.

LEAVES by sixes, crowded together, thin, linear, and ascending: footstalks very long.

FLOWERS grow about the middle of the branches, in whorls, straight, the whorls rising out of each other in succession: blossom cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long, curved, and flesh-coloured: segments of the mouth large, revolute, and nearly white within.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, villose, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers during the autumnal months.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Chive, summit magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud magnified.

THIS Erica resembles the E. exsurgens in its flowering, with some affinity in the foliage to the E. vestita alba, and is considered an hybrid production between those species.

Our figure was taken from a plant, four years old, at the nursery of Messrs. Rollinson, Lower Tooting, in the autumn of 1824, where it was first raised from seed, and is at present regarded as a perfectly new and scarce Heath.

ERICA exudans.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis; stylo sub-exerto: floribus cylindraceis, terminalibus: foliis quaternis, glandulosis, viscosis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS sesquipedalis, fruticosus, ramulis numerosis erectis.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glandulosa, viscosa, erecto-patentia.

FLORES plerumque quaterni, cernui, terminales; corollis cylindraceis, costatis, luteolo-rubris, sub-uncialibus, arcuatis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii ad Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Germen lente auctum.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with bearded tips, just within the blossom: shaft just without: flowers cylindrical, and terminating the branches: leaves by fours, glandular, and clammy.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot and half high, shrubby, with numerous small upright branches.

LEAVES by fours, linear, blunt-ended, glandular, viscous, and between erect and spreading.

FLOWERS mostly by fours, nodding, and terminal: blossoms cylindrical, ribbed, of a yellowish red, near an inch long, and slightly bowed.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, 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 magnified.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. Seed-bud magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

THIS Erica bears the compound appearance of the E. _droseroides_ and E. _costata_; resembling the latter in its flowers, and the former in its foliage, which is covered with glands, from which a thin and viscous juice exudes. Our drawing of it was first taken from plants in the Nursery of Mr. Buchanan at Camberwell, as long back as 1805; since that time it has been so nearly lost, that it was shown to us as a novelty in 1815; and we should not be surprised if it again becomes an absentee, as the few Ericas that possess glands on the foliage are difficult to preserve either in beauty or health, being subject to the adhesion of all sorts of dust, which obscuring their verdure, at the same time obstructs that perspiration, which being so very apparent, indicates it to be indispensably requisite to the health of the plant.

ERICA flagelliformis.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris cristatis, inclusis: flores ramos terminant in umbellis: foliis ternatis: ramis virgatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS virgatus, pedalis: rami et ramuli filiformes, flexuosissimi.

FOLIA ternata, erecta, crassa, obtusa, cauli adpressa.

FLORES ramos terminant in umbellis; pedunculi carnei: perianthium tetraphyllum: foliolis spathulatis, acuminatis, carneis: corolla urceolata, saturate carnea, ad basin pallida: oris laciniis patentibus.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Junii in Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Corolla.

3. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

5. Germen lente auctum.

6. Ramus varietatis parvæ.

7. Ramus varietatis minoris erectæ.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with crested tips, within the blossom: flowers terminate the branches in umbels: leaves by threes; branches twiggy.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM twiggy, a foot high; the large and smaller branches are thread-shaped, and very flexuose.

LEAVES by threes, straight, thick, obtuse, and pressed to the stem.

FLOWERS terminate the branches in umbels; footstalks flesh-coloured: empalement four-leaved; leaflets spathula-shaped, pointed, and flesh-coloured: blossom pitcher-shaped, of a deep flesh-colour, but paler at the base: segments of the border spreading.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from June till August.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. The Blossom.

3. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

5. Seed-bud magnified.

6. Branch of a small variety.

7. Branch of a smaller upright variety.

THIS Erica is figured from a drawing made in the gardens of G. Hibbert, Esq. as long back as the summer of 1806, where it was raised from Cape seed amongst many others, and considered as nearer allied to the E. _calycina_ than any other species. There was only one more plant of it, and that was of a very straggling growth, hanging down over the sides of the pot in all directions, making a very picturesque appearance, and to which we should certainly have given the preference, if we had not considered it more a casualty of culture than as a permanent character,--which we had not the opportunity of ascertaining, as both the plants died in the autumn,--we apprehend, from an excessive inflorescence,--and have never since re-appeared. Among the dissections we have given branches of two small seminal varieties, almost distinct enough to require a separate figure.

ERICA foliacea.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris aristatis, inclusis; floribus ramulos terminantibus, quaternis: foliis sparsis: caule erecto: ramis et ramulis foliis tectis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS pedalis, fruticosus: ramis longis, adscendentibus: ramulis perbrevibus.

FOLIA sparsa, numerosa, adscendentia, linearia, obtusa.

FLORES ramulos terminant, quaterni, subsessiles: corolla subcylindracea, curvata, cernuo-patente, subpollicari, flava, et transparente.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Augusti in Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamen unum lente auctum.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

4. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with bearded tips within the blossom: flowers terminate the smaller branches by fours: leaves scattered; stem upright: the large and smaller branches covered with leaves.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot high, shrubby: the larger branches long and ascending: the smaller ones very short.

LEAVES scattered, numerous, ascending, linear, and obtuse.

FLOWERS grow from the ends of the smaller branches by fours, and nearly sessile: blossom nearly cylindrical, curved, between spreading and nodding, nearly an inch long, yellow, and transparent.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of August till October.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Chive magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud magnified.

THIS Erica in its flower resembles the E. depressa: and to distinguish it from that low bushy shrub, the specific title of _depressa erecta_ was given to it, by which it is generally known in most collections;--but as a depressed upright appears to us incongruous, we have adopted that of foliacea, an unoccupied specific by which the plant may be discriminated either in or out of bloom.

Our figure was made from the collection of Mr. Lee, in the summer of 1822.

ERICA formosa, _bicolor_.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis; floribus sub apices ramorum verticillatis; corollis clavatis, bicoloratis; foliis sparsis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS sesquipedalis vel bipedalis, erectus; rami pauci.

FOLIA subsena, linearia, obtusa, patentia, parùm curvata; petiolis longis.

FLORES sub apices ramorum verticillati, axillares, et horizontales; pedunculis brevibus bracteis tribus instructis; corolla clavata, longa, parùm curvata, ad basin rubra, ad apicem flava; calycis foliolis subovatis, adpressis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Julii in Octobrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamen unum, cum antherâ lente auctâ.

3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

4. Flos varietatis trivialis.

5. Flos varietatis obscurè coloratæ.

6. Flos varietatis sordidè coloratæ.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, just within the blossom; flowers grow in whorls near the ends of the branches; blossom club-shaped, and two-coloured; leaves scattered.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot and a half or two feet high, upright; branches few.

LEAVES nearly by sixes, linear, blunt, spreading, and slightly curved; footstalks long.

FLOWERS grow near the ends of the branches in whorls, from the axillæ of the leaves, in a horizontal direction; peduncles short, and furnished with three floral leaves; blossom club-shaped, long, and slightly curved, red at the base, and yellow at the end; the leaflets of the cup are nearly ovate, and pressed to the blossom.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of July till October.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. A Chive with a tip magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

4. Flower of a slight variety.

5. Flower of a dull-coloured variety.

6. Flower of a dirty-coloured variety.

THE versatility that pervades this genus is particularly prominent in this species, which appears allied to the E. formosa, grandiflora, exsurgens, pinea, and also resembles in its general appearance many of that beautiful section of the Erica family well known by the specific appellation of vestita. Our figure was drawn, in the summer of 1807, from plants in the nursery of Mr. Rollinson. The flowers given with the dissections are mere florescent variations, no distinction being observable in the plants when out of bloom; we have therefore deemed it sufficient to represent only a flower of each of them.

ERICA glomerata.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: flores ramos terminant in capitibus aggregatis: foliis ternatis: ramis virgatis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS humilis: rami et ramuli filiformes, flexuosi.

FOLIA ternata, subulata, erecta, cauli adpressa.

FLORES terminales, capitibus aggregatis: corolla urceolata, incarnata: calycis foliola magna, ovata, acuminata, colorata, erecta.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, viride.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Martii in Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium auctum.

2. Flos.

3. Calyx.

4. Antheræ et Pistillum, anthera una lente aucta.

5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

6. Germen lente auctum.

7. Involucrum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips, within the blossoms: flowers terminate the branches in crowded heads: leaves by threes: branches twiggy.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM low: the small and large branches are thread-shaped, and flexuose.

LEAVES by threes, awl-shaped, upright, and pressed to the stem.

FLOWERS terminal, in crowded heads: blossom pitcher-shaped and flesh-coloured: the leaflets of the empalement are large, egg-shaped, pointed, coloured, and upright.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and green.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from May till July.

REFERENCE.

1. A leaf magnified.

2. A Flower.

3. The Empalement.

4. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

6. Seed-bud magnified.

7. The Involucrum.

THIS new species of Erica was raised at the Nursery of Mr. Rollinson, in the summer of 1812, from seed brought from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Niven. Our figure represents the entire (and we believe unique) plant of six years growth. It is a handsome little shrub, in its foliage resembling the E. _calycina_, but in every other particular very different from any species we are yet acquainted with.

ERICA grandinosa.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus terminalibus: foliis ternatis: caule fruticoso.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS pedalis, virgatus, flexuosus, fruticosus: ramulis patentibus.

FOLIA terna, sub-trigona, obtusa, brevia, crassiuscula.

FLORES in apicibus ramulorum subterni, cernui: corolla campanulata, parva, albida, et costata: laciniis oris revolutis: pedunculus pallide carneus: calyx duplex, exteriori trifoliato, angustiori.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, villosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Maii usque ad Julium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Stamen unum, anthera lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with bearded tips within the blossom: flowers terminal: leaves by threes: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot high, twiggy, flexuous, and shrubby: smaller branches spreading.

LEAVES by threes, nearly three-sided, obtuse, short, and thickish.

FLOWERS grow from the ends of the small branches, mostly by threes, nodding: blossom bell-shaped, small, white, and ribbed: segments of the mouth rolled back: peduncle of a pale flesh-colour: cup double, the outer one three-leaved, and narrower.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, villose, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of May till July.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf magnified.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. A Chive, summit magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

5. Seed-bud magnified.

THE Erica grandinosa was sent us in the month of June 1824, amongst many other new species, by Mr. Sinclair, from the splendid collection of his Grace the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey. This is one of those white-flowered Ericas so difficult to give a relief upon paper: it is a delicate little Heath, and although deficient in speciosity, claims attention as a perfectly new species, very distinct from any other hitherto figured.

ERICA Imperialis.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris aristatis, inclusis: floribus terminalibus, speciosissimis: foliis tremulis, spiraliter sparsis, truncatis: ramis simplicibus.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS bipedalis, erectus: ramis et ramulis simplicibus, longis.

FOLIA plerumque sena, linearia, obtusa, attenuata in petiolos longos capillares.

FLORES ramos terminant in verticillis simplicibus, patentibus, viscosis: pedunculis longis, recurvatis: corolla cylindrico-clavata, longa: ima parte profunde carnea, apice viridi, ore arctata, laciniis rectis.

GERMEN clavatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, subinclusus. Stigma peltatum, concavum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Novembri ad Januarium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium.

2. Calyx.

3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with bearded tips, within the blossom: flowers terminal and showy: leaves tremulous, spirally scattered, appearing cut off at the ends: branches simple.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM two feet high, upright: the large and small branches simple and long.

LEAVES mostly by sixes, linear, blunt, and tapering into long hair-like footstalks.

FLOWERS terminate the branches in simple whorls, spreading and clammy: footstalks long and recurved: blossom cylindrically club-shaped and long: the lower part of a deep flesh-colour, the end green, compressed at the mouth, whose segments are straight.

SEED-BUD club-shaped and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped, and just within the blossom: summit shield-shaped and hollow.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of November till January.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf.

2. The Empalement.

3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, one tip magnified.

5. Seed-bud magnified.

OUR figure represents a specimen from the conservatory of the Earl of Northampton (in November 1818), the only plant we could find in bloom for the last ten years. It is certainly less hardy than many of this fine tribe, and requires a clearer atmosphere than is to be met with in the vicinity of so large a city as London. It was first raised from Cape seed in the collection of G. Hibbert, Esq. in 1806.

ERICA infundibuliformis.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris superne bicornibus, inclusis: floribus terminalibus, quaternis: longis tenuis foliis ternis: caulis gracilis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, debilis, pedalis et ultra: rami et ramuli filiformes virgati.

FOLIA terna, linearia, obtusa, glabra, erecto, patentia.

FLORES ad apices ramulorum quaterni, pedunculis brevissimis, bracteis: tribus subulatis instructis: corollis tubulosis longis tenuis rubris: oris laciniis equalis patentes superne albis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Augusti in Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

3. Germen et Pistillum stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with tips two-horned on the upper part, within the blossom: flowers terminal, grow by fours, long and slender: leaves by threes: stem slender.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, weak, a foot or more high: the small and large branches are thread-shaped, and twiggy.

LEAVES by threes, linear, blunt, smooth, erect, and spreading.

FLOWERS grows by fours at the ends of the small branches: footstalks very short, and furnished with three awl-shaped floral leaves: blossoms tubular, long, slender, and of a red colour: segments of the border spreading, equal and white on the upper surface.

SEED-BUD turban shaped, and furrowed, with honey bearing nectaries at the base.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from August till November.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

THIS fine species of Erica was raised from seed brought from the Cape of Good Hope by Mr. Niven: it bears a considerable resemblance to the E. tenuiflora, but differs in the specific character of its antheræ from all those we have hitherto figured: for when they are bearded, crested, or two-horned, those appendages have invariably been at the base, but in this one instance, they are almost at the top of the anthers, instead of the bottom.

It is a plant that flowers freely, and during the autumnal months makes a most elegant appearance.

ERICA Jasminiflora, _minor_.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris muticis, inclusis: stylo sub-exerto: floribus terminalibus: foliis ternis: ramulis numerosis.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS fruticosus, pedalis, erecto-patens: ramis longis.

FOLIA terna, trigona, acuta, curvata, supra plana, subtus sulcata.

FLORES terminales, terni vel seni: corolla rubra, sesquipollicaris, summa cylindrica, ad basin inflata, ore arctata: laciniis patentibus acutis: pedunculis longis coloratis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Aprili in Junium.

REFERENTIA.

1. Stamina et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

2. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

3. Flos varietatis albæ.

4. Flos varietatis striatæ.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with beardless tips within the blossoms: shaft just without: flowers terminal: leaves by threes: branches numerous.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM shrubby, a foot high, between erect and spreading: branches long.

LEAVES by threes, three-sided, pointed and curved, flat on their upper surface, and furrowed beneath.

FLOWERS terminate the branches in threes or sixes: blossoms red, an inch and a half long, the upper part cylindrical, swelled at the base, and contracted at the mouth: segments spreading and pointed: footstalks long and coloured.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped and furrowed, with honey-bearing nectaries at the base.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from the month of April till June.

REFERENCE.

1. The Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified.

2. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

3. Flower of a white variety.

4. Flower of a striped variety.

OUR figure represents a plant raised from seed in 1807 in the collection of the Hon. W. Irby, where we also found, at the same time, a variation with white flowers; and in the conservatory of the Countess de Vandes this year, 1811, observed another variety, the blossoms of which were elegantly striped in the tube: we have therefore added a flower of each variety to our dissections, as all the three plants were so very much like each other in every other particular, that we could not distinguish one from the other when out of bloom.

ERICA Lawsonia.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris muticis, inclusis: foliis quaternis: corollis tubæformibus: caule humili, fruticoso.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS pygmæus: ramis et ramulis filiformibus, virgatis.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, acuta, erecto-patentia.

FLORES in medio ramorum, sparsi: pedunculis brevibus.

COROLLA rubra, tubæformis, tenuissima: oris laciniis acuminatis, patentibus.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a Mense Junio ad Augustum.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with beardless tips, within the blossom: leaves by fours: blossom trumpet-shaped: stem low and shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

A DWARF SHRUB: the small and large branches thread-shaped and twiggy.

LEAVES by fours, linear, pointed, and between erect and spreading.

FLOWERS grow about the middle of the branches, scattered: footstalks short.

BLOSSOM red, trumpet-shaped, and very slender: segments of the border are sharp-pointed and spreading.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped and furrowed.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from June till August.

REFERENCE.

1. The Leaf magnified.

2. The Empalement magnified.

3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, one tip magnified.

5. Seed-bud magnified.

THIS elegant dwarf shrub was named after the late Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart. Our figure was drawn in the summer of 1818 from a plant four years old; and if we can judge from the appearance of those plants we have seen in different collections, it will continue to be, as it is at present, slow in growth and low in stature.

ERICA Linnæa superba.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris muticis, inclusis: floribus pilosis, pellucidis: foliis quaternis: caule erecto, fruticoso.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS bipedalis, fruticosus, erectus: ramulis numerosis, brevibus, pilosis.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, villis brevissimis, adscendentia.

FLORES ramulos terminant, formantes spicam longam: corolla clavata, leviter curvata, unciali, pilosa, pellucida, ore albo inflata, ad basin cylindrica et purpurea: laciniis erecto-patentibus et revolutis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret per menses Maii, Junii, et Julii.

REFERENTIA.

1. Folium lente auctum.

2. Calyx.

3. Stamen, anthera una lente aucta.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with beardless tips within the blossom: flowers hairy and transparent: leaves by fours: stem upright, and shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

Stem two feet high, shrubby, upright: the smaller branches numerous, short, and hairy.

LEAVES by fours, linear, with very short hairs, and ascending.

FLOWERS terminate the smaller branches, forming a long spike: blossom club-shaped, slightly curved, an inch long, hairy and transparent, white and swelled at the mouth, cylindrical and purple at the base: segments of the border between erect, spreading, and revolute.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers during the months of May, June, and July.

REFERENCE.

1. A Leaf magnified.

2. The Empalement.

3. A Chive, one tip magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

5. Seed-bud magnified.

This fine plant has ornamented various collections for the last five or six years. In growth it is luxuriant, as we have frequently seen it two feet high, with numerous long flowering branches, at Covent-Garden, amongst many of the most beautiful (if not most rare) Ericas, which are exclusively cultivated for that well-known emporium. It may certainly be considered as one of the finest variations of _Erica Linnæa_, and as such its hyperbolical specific title may serve to distinguish it from most of the varieties.

ERICA magnifica.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA, antheris bicornibus, inclusis: floribus metulæformibus, purpureis, nitidis: foliis ternis: ramis confertis: caule humili.

DESCRIPTIO.

FRUTEX pygmæus, ramis et ramulis numerosis confertis.

FOLIA ternata, linearia, obtusa, recta, subtùs leviter sulcata, marginibus rotundatis.

FLORES plerumque ternati, patentes, aut cernui: pedunculi colorati, bracteis tribus instructi: corolla metulæformis, purpurea, lucida: oris laciniis erectis: calycis foliolis ovato-acutis, adpressis.

GERMEN tiaræforme, bicoloratum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret a mense Augusti in Novembrem.

REFERENTIA.

1. Calyx.

2. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, antherâ unâ lente auctâ.

3. German et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH, with tips two-horned at the base, within the blossom: flowers skittle-shaped, purple, and shining: leaves by threes; branches crowded together: stem low.

DESCRIPTION.

A DWARF shrub, with numerous large and small branches crowded together.

LEAVES by threes, linear, blunt-ended and straight, slightly furrowed beneath, and rounded on the edges.

FLOWERS grow mostly by threes, spreading or nodding: footstalks coloured, and furnished with three floral leaves: blossom skittle-shaped, purple, and shining: segments of the border upright: leaflets of the cup ovate, pointed, and pressed to the blossom.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, two-coloured, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers from August till November.

REFERENCE.

1. The Empalement.

2. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified.

3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

THIS Erica is a handsome bushy shrub, but certainly not magnificent, although, when first introduced in the year 1800, its claim to the specific title of magnifica was undoubtedly more appropriate than it now appears to be amongst the numerous species (and many of superior beauty) raised since that period from Cape seed. It is at present in but few collections; which is probably owing to its being of slow growth, and not easily increased. The only fine flowering plants we have seen lately have been in the conservatory of the Countess de Vandes, and at the nursery of Mr. Williams, whence our figure was taken.

ERICA minutæflora.

CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.

ERICA antheris muticis, subinclusis: stylo exerto: summitate magna, concava: floribus parvis, axillaribus: foliis quaternis: caule fruticoso.

DESCRIPTIO.

CAULIS pedalis et ultra, erectus, flexuosus: ramulis verticillatis, adscendentibus, filiformibus.

FLORES in summis ramulorum paniculati, plerumque bini, axillares; corolla campanulata, purpurea, minuta: calyce adpresso.

FOLIA quaterna, linearia, longa, obtusa, glauca, et patentia.

GERMEN tiaræforme, sulcatum, tomentosum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.

Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.

Floret per menses autumnales.

REFERENTIA.

1. Flores duo.

2. Calyx lente auctus.

3. Flos lente auctus.

4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.

5. Germen lente auctum.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

HEATH with beardless tips just within the blossom: shaft without: summit large and hollow: flowers small, axillary: leaves by fours: stem shrubby.

DESCRIPTION.

STEM a foot or more high, upright, and flexuose: the smaller branches grow in whorls, ascending, and thread-shaped.

FLOWERS grow in loose spikes near the ends of the branches, mostly in twos, from the axillæ of the leaves: blossom bell-shaped, purple, and very small: empalement pressed to them.

LEAVES by fours, linear, long, blunt-ended, glaucous, and spreading.

SEED-BUD turban-shaped, furrowed, downy, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.

Native of the Cape of Good Hope.

Flowers during the autumnal months.

REFERENCE.

1. Two flowers.

2. Empalement magnified.

3. A Flower magnified.

4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.

5. The Seed-bud magnified.