ERICA pinifolia, discolor.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores horizontaliter verticillati, sub apices ramorum. Pedunculi colorati, hirsuti. Corolla tubulosa, costata, pollicaris, pilis glandulosis densissime circumsessa, apicem versus albis, ad basin rubris: laciniis revolutis, obsolete crenulatis. Folia plerumque sena, confertissima, linearia. Caulis fruticosus, brevis, robustus. Rami foliis dense tecti.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers whorled, near the ends of the branches, in a horizontal direction. Footstalks coloured and hispid. Blossom tubular, ribbed, an inch long, and closely beset with glandular hairs, white towards the end, and red at the base. Segments of the border are rolled back, and slightly notched. Leaves mostly by sixes, very crowded, and linear. Stem shrubby, short, and stout. The branches thickly covered with leaves.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till July.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud magnified. |