ERICA gracilis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ basi bicornes, inclusæ. Flores plerumque quaterni, in capitulis terminalibus, pedunculis capillaribus. Corolla parva, sub-globosa, læte purpurea, ore paululum contracta. Folia quaterna, linearia, tenuia, glabra, erecta. Caulis fruticosus, sesquipedalis; ramulis filiformibus, per-gracilibus, numerosis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned at the base, within the blossom. Flowers chiefly in fours, in terminal heads with capillary foot stalks. Blossom small, rather globose, bright purple, a little contracted at the mouth. Leaves by fours, linear, thin, smooth and erect. Stem shrubby, a foot and a half high. Branches thread-shaped, very slender, and numerous.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from February till May, and again from August till October.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified. |