ERICA ferruginea.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in ramulis terminales, simpliciter verticillati, horizontales. Pedunculi colorati, hispiduli, bracteis tribus hirsutis instructi. Corolla basi inflata, apice attenuata; ima pars carnea, summa saturate purpurea, ore arctata: laciniis acutis, patentibus. Folia sub-quaterna, obtusa, pilis longis ferrugineis circumsessa. Caulis humilis, fruticosus, erectus, sub-pedalis. Rami et ramuli flexuosi, filiformes, foliis subtecti.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers terminate the smaller branches in single horizontal whorls. Footstalks coloured, slightly hispid, and furnished with three hairy floral leaves. Blossom inflated at the base, tapering to the point, the lower part of a flesh-colour, the upper part of a deep purple, straightened at the mouth: the segments are pointed, and spreading. Leaves mostly by fours, blunt-ended, and beset with long rusty-coloured hairs. Stem low, shrubby, upright, and scarce a foot high. The large and small branches are flexuose, thread-shaped, and nearly covered by the leaves.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from April till July.
REFERENCE.
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1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. Chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |