ERICA sordida.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, exsertis; corollis pilosis, curvis, sordide-luteis; floribus terminalibus, sessilibus; folia quaterna, linearia, pilis longis tecta.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, erectus, apice pilosus; rami sparsi, erecti; ramuli frequentissimi, pilosi.
Folia quaterna, linearia, pilosa, obtusa; petiolis brevissimis.
Flores sessiles in omnibus ramulorum apicibus, solitarii, bini, vel terni; pedunculi brevissimi, bracteis tribus, adpressis, instructi.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis foliis similibus, adpressis.
Corolla tubulosa-clavata, curvata, pollicaria, sordide-lutea, pilosa; oris laciniis recurvatis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo capillaria, apice incurvata. Antheræ muticæ, exsertæ.
Pistillum. Germen ovatum, sulcatum. Stylus filiformis, exsertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mensi Augusti, in Decembrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium, auctum.
2. Calyx, et Corolla.
3. Calyx, auctus.
4. Stamen et Pistillum, anthera una, aucta.
5. Stigma, auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, without the blossoms, which are hairy, curved, and of a dirty yellow; flowers terminate the branches, sitting close to the stem; leaves grow by fours, linear, and covered with long hairs.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, hairy at the top; branches scattered, upright; smaller branches numerous, and hairy.
Leaves grow by fours, linear, hairy and blunt; with very short foot-stalks.
Flowers sit close upon the ends of the smaller branches, growing solitary, or by twos, or threes; the foot-stalks are very short, having three floral leaves pressed close to the cup.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved, the leaflets like the other leaves, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom tubularly club-shaped, curved, an inch long, of a dirty yellow colour and hairy; the segments of the mouth rolled back.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads, curved inwards at the points. Tips beardless, and without the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud egg-shaped, and furrowed. Shaft thread-shaped and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of August, till December.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf, magnified.
2. The Empalement, and Blossom.
3. The Empalement, magnified.
4. The Chives and Pointal, a tip magnified.
5. The Summit, magnified.
