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1. The Empalement. 2. The Chives and Pointal. 3. A Chive, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. |
Our figure represents a fine new species of Erica communicated from the extensive collection of His Grace the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, where it was raised from seed in the summer of 1824. In its foliage it very much resembles the E. tenuiflora alba, figured in our third volume; the principal if not the only distinction is, when in bloom, the delicacy of its flowers, whose fine blush-colour gives it a decided preference over the white variety. It is considered as a variety through the medium of the E. spuria, a mule to which the genus is indebted for many fine variations.[Pg 263]
ERICA Thunbergia.
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis: stylo sub-exerto: floribus globosis, campanulatis: foliis ternis.