Flowers terminate the branches in crowded heads: blossom small, whitish, tubularly bell-shaped: cup double, the outer one three-leaved awl-shaped, hairy, and pressed to the blossom: footstalk short.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of May till July.
REFERENCE.
|
1. The Empalement. 2. A Flower. 3. A Chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. |
This Erica has been so often baptized, that we are under the necessity of detailing the order of their succession. First it was called E. Solandra after the late Dr. Solander; secondly, another plant of a similar appearance, but bearing purple flowers, was named after that gentleman. This plant was then for some years called the old Solandra; but has recently been named Erica stellata, which we cannot retain, having already occupied that specific title. No other way remained to avoid confusion, but again to rename it something like the first, and not unlike the second, by which means we hope to keep it in its proper sphere—at least to make it recognised for what it has been, by what it now is called.
Our drawing was made from plants at the Hammersmith Nursery.[Pg 235]