Flowers from July till November.
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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.[Pg 71]
