ERICA vestita incarnata.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis inclusis, foliis 6-8-nis setaceis longissimis, in petioles capillares attenuatis, floribus conferte verticillatis inferne albidis, superne læte roseis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis fruticosus, rectus, bipedalis, ramis simplicibus, adscendentibus, venuste foliosis.
Folia sena, septena, vel octona, erecta, aggregata, setacea, in petiolos capillares deorsum attenuata, et inde pereleganter tremulosa.
Flores aggregatim verticillati supra medium ramulorum, patuli; pedunculi breves, bracteis tribus foliiformibus instructi.
Calyx tetraphyllus, foliolis late subulatis, adpressis.
Corolla clavata, uncialis, parum curvata, basin versus albicans, superne læte rosea.
Stamina octo capillaria; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen tiaræforme, basi poris melliferis instructum. Stylus filiformis, aliquo inclusus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spæi.
Floret mense Maii ad Augustum.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium. 2. Calyx et Corolla. 3. Calyx lente auctus. 4. Stamina diducta, antherâ unicâ lente auctâ. 5. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 6. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom, leaves in sixes to eights bristle-shaped very long, and attenuated into capillary foot-stalks, flowers whitish downwards, and bright flesh-colour above.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem shrubby, upright, two feet high, with simple, ascending, and beautiful leafy branches.
Leaves in sixes, sevens, or eights, erect, crowded, bristle-shaped, and attenuated downwards into capillary foot-stalks, and thence very elegantly tremulous.
Flowers in crowded whorls above the middle of the branches, patulous; peduncles short, furnished with three leaf-shaped floral leaves.
Empalement four-leaved, with the leaflets broad awl-shaped, and pressed to the blossom.
Blossom club-shaped, an inch long, a little curved, whitish towards the base, upwards of a bright rose colour.
Chives eight hair-like threads, tips beardless, within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud turban-shaped, furnished with honey-bearing pores at the base. Shaft thread-shaped, just within the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of May until August.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf. 2. The Empalement and Blossom. 3. The Calyx magnified. 4. The Chives detached, with one tip magnified. 5. The Seed-bud and Pointal, with the summit magnified. 6. The Seed-bud magnified.
