Volume 3 — ERICA erubescens.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis. Corolla cylindracea, pilis glandulosis densissime circumsessa; imprimis alba, denique rosea. Calyx duplex, imbricatus. Folia quaterna, rigida, aculeata.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis erectus, sub-bipedalis. Rami pauci. Ramuli numerosi, simplices.
Folia quaterna, lanceolata, aculeata, subtus sulco exarata; petioli adpressi.
Flores in ramulis terminales, quaterni, nutantes; pedunculi brevissimi.
Calyx duplex: exterior triphyllus, maximus, late ovatus, sulcatus, squamosus, dentatus, interiori adpressus, qui est tetraphyllus.
Corolla cylindracea, pilis glandulosis densissime circumsessa sub-pollicaribus; os intus pilosum, laciniis rotundis, revolutis.
Stamina. Filamenta octo, capillaria; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Stylus filiformis, exertus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Martio in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folii inferior pars lente aucta. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Corolla lente aucta. 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. Blossom cylindrical, closely beset with glandular hairs; white at first, and then dying off of a rose colour. Empalement double, and tiled. Leaves by fours, harsh, and prickly.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem upright, near two feet high. Large branches few. Smaller ones numerous, and simple.
Leaves by fours, lance-shaped, prickly, deeply furrowed beneath. The footstalks pressed to the branches.
Flowers terminate the small branches by fours, hanging down; footstalks very short.
Empalement double: the outer one three-leaved, very large, broadly egg-shaped, furrowed, scaly, and toothed; pressed to the inner one, which is four-leaved.
Blossom cylindrical, closely beset with glandular hairs near an inch long; the inner part of the mouth hairy; the segments round, and rolled back.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads; tips beardless, and within the blossom. Shaft thread-shaped, and without the blossom. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from March till July.
REFERENCE.
1. The underside of a Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. A Blossom magnified. 4. The Chives detached; one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 6. Seed-bud magnified.
