Volume 3 — ERICA ferruginea.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, inclusis; floribus ampullaceis, verticillatis, horizontalibus, carneis, viscosis; foliis sub-quaternis, confertis, pilis longis ferrugineis circumcessis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis humilis, fruticosus, erectus, sub-pedalis; rami et ramuli flexuosi, filiformes, foliis sub-tecti.
Folia sub-quaterna, obtusa, pilis longis ferrugineis circumcessa, supra plana, subtus leviter sulcata; petiolis longis, adpressis.
Flores in ramulis terminales, simpliciter verticillati, horizontales; pedunculi colorati, hispiduli, bracteis tribus hirsutis instructi.
Calyx. Perianthium tetraphyllum; foliola lanceolata, pilis longis ferrugineis ad apices.
Corolla basi inflata, apice attenuata; ima pars carnea, summa saturate purpurea, ore arctata; laciniis acutis, patentibus.
Stamina. Filamenta octo, capillaria, receptaculo inserta; antheræ muticæ, inclusæ.
Pistillum. Germen clavatum. Stylus inclusus. Stigma tetragonum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Maio in Julium.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta; antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips within the blossom; flowers flask-shaped, growing in horizontal whorls, flesh-coloured, and clammy; leaves mostly by fours, crowded, and beset with long rusty-coloured hairs.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem low, shrubby, upright, and scarce a foot high; the large and small branches are flexuose, thread-shaped, and nearly covered by the leaves.
Leaves mostly by fours, blunt-ended, and beset with long rusty-coloured hairs, flat on the upper surface, and slightly furrowed beneath; footstalks long, and pressed to the branches.
Flowers terminate the smaller branches in single horizontal whorls; footstalks coloured, slightly hispid, and furnished with three hairy floral leaves.
Empalement. Cup four-leaved; leaflets lance-shaped, with long rusty-coloured hairs at their points.
Blossom inflated at the base, and tapering to the point; the lower part of a flesh-colour, the upper of a deep purple, straightened at the mouth; the segments are pointed, and spreading.
Chives. Eight hair-like threads fixed into the receptacle; tips beardless, and within the blossom.
Pointal. Seed-bud club-shaped. Shaft within. Summit four-cornered.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from May till July.
REFERENCE.
1. A Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
