ERICA droseroides, minor.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris cristatis, inclusis: floribus terminalibus, cernuis: foliis ternatis: caule fruticoso, erecto.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis spithamæus, fruticosus: ramis filiformibus, sparsis, erectis, patentibus, virgatis.
Folia terna, linearia, obtusa, marginibus pilis glandulosis, micantibus.
Flores in umbellis terminalibus, cernui: corolla urceolata, læte purpurea, costata, viscosa: ore obliquo, arctato, profunde sanguineo: pedunculi longissimi pilis glandulosis tecti.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Julii in Octobrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folii pars inferior lente aucta. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with crested tips within the blossom; flowers terminal and nodding; leaves by threes; stem shrubby and upright.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a span high and shrubby: branches long, scattered, erect, spreading, and twiggy.
Leaves by threes, linear and blunt, with shining glandular hairs on the margins.
Flowers grow in terminal umbels, nodding: blossom pitcher-shaped, of a bright purple colour, ribbed and clammy: the mouth is oblique, narrowed, and of a deep blood colour: footstalks very long, and covered with glandular hairs.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of July till October.
REFERENCE.
1. The under side of a Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. A Chive magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
Our figure represents an entire plant from the Hammersmith Nursery, raised from seed in the autumn of 1820, after an absence of fifteen years; during which period we believe it has been lost to every collection we are acquainted with. It can only be retained by care and attention to preserve it from damp, of which it is much more susceptible than the generality of this extended genus.
