ERICA vestita, fulgida.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, sub-exertæ. Flores supra medium ramorum, conferti, numerosi; pedunculis brevibus. Corolla uncialis et ultra, clavata, læte et saturate rubra. Folia plerumque sena, linearia, deorsum in petiolos capillares attenuata, et inde tremula. Caulis fruticosus, tripedalis, ramosus; ramis plerumque erectis, sub-simplicibus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers above the middle of the branches, crowded and numerous. The footstalks are short. Blossoms above an inch long, club-shaped, and of a deep bright red colour. Leaves mostly by sixes, linear, attenuated downwards into capillary footstalks, and thence tremulous. Stem shrubby, three feet high, branching. The branches are mostly upright, and simple.
