Berry heath or arbutus-flowered heath, Erica baccans. Native to the Cape, South Africa, introduced by Scottish botanist Francis Masson in 1774. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration from William Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Stephen Couchman, London, 1796.

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