Heath with bearded tips within the blossom: flowers terminate the smaller branches by fours: leaves scattered; stem upright: the large and smaller branches covered with leaves.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot high, shrubby: the larger branches long and ascending: the smaller ones very short.
Leaves scattered, numerous, ascending, linear, and obtuse.
Flowers grow from the ends of the smaller branches by fours, and nearly sessile: blossom nearly cylindrical, curved, between spreading and nodding, nearly an inch long, yellow, and transparent.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of August till October.
REFERENCE.
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1. The Empalement. 2. A Chive magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |
This Erica in its flower resembles the E. depressa: and to distinguish it from that low bushy shrub, the specific title of depressa erecta was given to it, by which it is generally known in most collections;—but as a depressed upright appears to us incongruous, we have adopted that of foliacea, an unoccupied specific by which the plant may be discriminated either in or out of bloom.