ERICA erubescens.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in ramulis terminales, quaterni, nutantes. Pedunculi brevissimi. Calyx duplex; foliolis late ovatis, sulcatis, squamosis, dentatis. Corolla cylindracea, pilis glandulosis sub-pollicaribus densissime circumsessa. Os intus pilosum, imprimis album, denique roseum. Folia quaterna, lanceolata, aculeata. Caulis erectus, sub-bipedalis. Rami pauci. Ramuli numerosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the small branches by fours, hanging down. Footstalks very short. Cup double; the leaflets broadly ovate, furrowed, skinny, and toothed. Blossom cylindrical, closely beset with glandular hairs near an inch long. The inner part of the mouth hairy, white at first, and then dying off of a rose colour. Leaves by fours, lance-shaped, and prickly. Stem upright, near two feet high. Large branches few. Smaller ones numerous.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from March till July.
REFERENCE.
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1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. |