ERICA vestita, coccinea.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, sub-exertæ. Flores in ramulis mediis conferti, erecto-patentes. Pedunculi brevissimi. Corolla clavata, pollicaris, saturate coccinea; oris laciniis revolutis. Folia sena, conferta, linearia, tremula, glabra, attenuata in petiolos capillares. Caulis erectus, bipedalis, parum ramosus; ramuli simplices, foliis tecti.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers are clustered together about the middle of the branches, between erect and spreading. Footstalks very short. Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, and of a deep scarlet colour; the segments of the mouth are rolled back. Leaves by sixes, crowded together, linear, tremulous, smooth, and tapering into hair-like footstalks. Stem upright, two feet high, seldom branching; the smaller branches are simple, and covered with leaves.
