ERICA vestita, rosea.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, sub-exertæ. Flores aggregatim verticillati apices versus ramorum robustiorum, patentes. Corolla clavata, per-rosea, uncialis et ultra. Folia plerumque octona, conferta, linearia, obtusa, deorsum in petiolos capillares attenuata, et inde eleganter tremula. Caulis erectus, ramis longis, simplicibus, foliosis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers crowdedly whorled near the ends of the stoutest branches, and spreading. Blossom club-shaped, of a deep rose colour, above an inch long. Leaves chiefly in eights, crowded, linear, and blunt, attenuated downwards into capillary footstalks, and thence elegantly tremulous. Stem upright, with the branches long, simple and leafy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from July 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. |