ummer months; in the winter it must be
kept in the green-house; in the summer it will bear the open air, grows
readily from cuttings, should be planted in rich earth, and plentifully
watered in dry weather.

[Illustration: _No 219_]

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MICHAUXIA CAMPANULOIDES. ROUGH-LEAV'D MICHAUXIA.

_Class and Order._

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cal._ 16-partitus. _Cor._ rotata, 8-partita. _Nectarium_ 8-valve,
staminiferum. _Caps._ 8-locularis, polysperma. _L' Heritier
Monogr._

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

MICHAUXIA campanuloides. _L' Heritier Monogr._

The celebrated author of the _Hortus Kewensis_ informs us, that the
plant here figured is a native of the Levant, and was introduced to this
country in the year 1787, by Mons. L'HERITIER, who first gave it the
name of _Michauxia_, and wrote a Monographia, or particular treatise on
it.

We have before observed, that when a plant has been named in honour of
any particular person, that name must be retained in all countries,
however uncouth its pronunciation may be, and there are few of our
readers but what will think the present name sufficiently so.

Last summer 1792, in the month of July, we had the pleasure to see a
fine plant of this sort, fully blown, in the collection of Messrs.
GRIMWOOD and CO. Kensington; though in a small pot, it grew nearly to
the height of six feet, was branched almost to the bottom, and loaded
with a profusion of blossoms, such as are represented on the plate, and
which bore some distant resemblance to those of a passion-flower.

It is a biennial green-house plant, and, of course, only to be raised
from seeds, which we are sorry to find have not ripened in this country,
though they are said to do so in France.

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ERICA CERINTHOIDES. HONEYWORT-FLOWER'D HEATH.

_Class and Order._

OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Cal._ 4-phyllus. _Cor._ 4-fida. _Filamenta_ receptaculo inferta.
_Antherae_ bifidae. _Caps._ 4-locularis.

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

ERICA _cerinthoides_ antheris muticis inclusis, corollis clavatis
grossis, stigmate incluso cruciato, foliis quaternis. _Linn. Syst.
Vegetab. ed. 14. Murr. p. 368._ _Ait. Kew. V. 2. p. 22._

The _Erica cerinthoides_ is one of the most magnificent and shewy of the
genus, grows wild at the Cape, from whence it was introduced to the
royal garden at Kew, by Mr. MASSON, in 1774; it is the more valuable,