ERICA aristata, minor.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores quaterni, patentes. Corolla basi inflata, apice attenuata, rubra, glutinosissima et lucida. Folia ternata, subtrigona, supra plana, subtus sulco-exarata, marginibus pilis longis obsitis. Caulis erectus, fruticosus, pedalis et ultra, ramulis plerumque ternis verticillatis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers grow by fours, spreading. The blossom is swelled at the base, tapering towards the end, red, very gummy and shining. Leaves by threes, nearly three-sided, flat on their upper surface, and deeply furrowed beneath: the margins are beset with long hairs. Stem upright, shrubby, a foot or more high. Branches grow mostly in whorls by threes.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from June till October.
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