ERICA pellucida.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in ramulis terminales, plerumque quaterni, cernui. Pedunculi longi, glandulosi, bracteis tribus lanceolatis, glandulosis, instructi. Corolla tubulato-ventricosa, pilosa, costata, alba, et pellucida; limbi laciniis semi-orbicularibus, sub-erectis. Folia quaterna, lanceolata, lucida, aculeata, sulco exarata. Caulis gracilis, sesquipedalis, hirsutus. Rami et ramuli hirsuti, flexuosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, and within the blossom. Flowers terminate the small branches mostly by fours, nodding. Footstalks long, glandular, and furnished with three lance-shaped, glandular floral leaves. Blossom of an inflated tubular form, hairy, ribbed, white, and transparent. The segments of the border are half round, and nearly upright. Leaves by fours, lance-shaped, shining, prickly, and deeply furrowed beneath. Stem slender, a foot and a half high, harshly haired. The large and small branches are hirsute and flexuose.
