ERICA rupestris, rubra.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ; flores ad apicem ramorum ramulorumque in umbellis irregularibus, cernuis; corolla campanulata, rubra; oriis laciniis patentibus; folia ternata, crassa, obtusa recta; caulis erectus sesquipedalis; ramis plerumque ternis, ad basin patentibus, superne adscendentibus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, within the blossom; flowers grow at the ends of the larger and smaller branches, in irregular umbells, nodding all one way; blossom bell-shaped and red; segments of the border spreading; leaves by threes, thick, blunt and straight; stem upright, a foot and a half high; branches mostly by threes, hanging down at the base of the plant, in the middle spreading out, and ascending towards the top.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from February till November.
REFERENCES.
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1. The Empalement. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |