ERICA vestita, lutea.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ: flores in verticillis aggregatis, sub apicibus ramulorum: pedunculis brevibus, bracteis tribus instructis: corolla cylindrica, uncialis, lutea, leviter costata: folia sena, septena, vel octona, erecta, aggregata, setacea, petiolis longissimis: caulis bipedalis, erectus, ramis simplicibus adscendentibus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom: flowers grow in crowded whorls, near the ends of the branches: footstalks short, and furnished with three floral leaves: blossom an inch long, yellow, and slightly ribbed: leaves in sixes, sevens, and eights, erect, crowded, and bristle-shaped: footstalks very long: stem two feet high, upright, with simple ascending branches.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from July till October.
REFERENCE.
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1. The empalement. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |