ERICA foliacea.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris aristatis, inclusis; floribus ramulos terminantibus, quaternis: foliis sparsis: caule erecto: ramis et ramulis foliis tectis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis pedalis, fruticosus: ramis longis, adscendentibus: ramulis perbrevibus.
Folia sparsa, numerosa, adscendentia, linearia, obtusa.
Flores ramulos terminant, quaterni, subsessiles: corolla subcylindracea, curvata, cernuo-patente, subpollicari, flava, et transparente.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Augusti in Octobrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Calyx. 2. Stamen unum lente auctum. 3. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 4. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with bearded tips within the blossom: flowers terminate the smaller branches by fours: leaves scattered; stem upright: the large and smaller branches covered with leaves.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot high, shrubby: the larger branches long and ascending: the smaller ones very short.
Leaves scattered, numerous, ascending, linear, and obtuse.
Flowers grow from the ends of the smaller branches by fours, and nearly sessile: blossom nearly cylindrical, curved, between spreading and nodding, nearly an inch long, yellow, and transparent.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from the month of August till October.
REFERENCE.
1. The Empalement. 2. A Chive magnified. 3. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified.
This Erica in its flower resembles the E. depressa: and to distinguish it from that low bushy shrub, the specific title of depressa erecta was given to it, by which it is generally known in most collections;—but as a depressed upright appears to us incongruous, we have adopted that of foliacea, an unoccupied specific by which the plant may be discriminated either in or out of bloom.
Our figure was made from the collection of Mr. Lee, in the summer of 1822.
