ERICA Bauera.
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ. Flores in medio ramorum, spicati. Corolla dependens, sub-pollicaris, cylindracea, curvata, imprimis pellucide alba, denique rosacea. Folia quaterna, linearia, obtusa, glauca, plerumque patentia. Caulis erectus, flexuosus. Rami longi; cum ramulis binis vel ternis verticillatis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers grow in spikes about the middle of the large branches. Blossom hanging down, near an inch long, cylindraceous, inflected, at first of a transparent white, afterwards dying off of a rose colour. Leaves by fours, linear, blunt, glaucous, and mostly spreading. Stem upright, flexuose. Branches long; with two or three smaller branches in whorls.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
In bloom from August till November.
REFERENCE.
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1. A leaf. 2. Empalement. 3. A chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. |