ERICA viridis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores infra apices ramorum confertim verticillati, horizontales. Corolla cylindrica, uncialis, saturate viridis, viscosa, costata, asperiuscula. Folia sena, linearia, patentia. Caulis fruticosus, erectus. Rami plerumque simplices, erecti et rigidi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers grow near the ends of the branches crowdedly whorled, and horizontal. Blossom cylindrical, an inch long, of a deep green, clammy, ribbed, and roughish. Leaves by sixes, linear, and spreading. Stem shrubby, upright. The branches are mostly simple, erect, and rigid.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from May till September.
REFERENCE.
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1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement. 3. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified. |