ERICA lucida.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ cristatæ, sub-inclusæ. Flores terminates, in umbellis trifloris. Pedunculi breves. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis lato-ovatis, acutis, ciliatisque. Corolla breviter campanulata, laciniis patulis, pallide carneis et lucidis. Folia ternata, subulata, erecta, lucida. Caulis fruticosus, strictus, gracilis, bipedalis. Rami plerumque ternati, erecto-patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, just within the blossom. Flowers terminal, in three-flowered umbels. Footstalks short. Cup four-leaved: leaflets broadly egg-shaped, sharp-pointed, and ciliated. Blossom shortly bell-shaped, with spreading segments of a pale shining flesh-colour. Leaves by threes, awl-shaped, upright, and shining. Stem shrubby, upright, slender, and two feet high. Branches mostly by threes, between erect and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from April till June.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement magnified. 2. A blossom magnified. 3. The chives and pointal, magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, magnified. |