ERICA Lawsonia.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica antheris muticis, inclusis: foliis quaternis: corollis tubæformibus: caule humili, fruticoso.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis pygmæus: ramis et ramulis filiformibus, virgatis.
Folia quaterna, linearia, acuta, erecto-patentia.
Flores in medio ramorum, sparsi: pedunculis brevibus.
Corolla rubra, tubæformis, tenuissima: oris laciniis acuminatis, patentibus.
Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a Mense Junio ad Augustum.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina a Pistillo diducta, anthera una lente aucta. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto. 5. Germen lente auctum.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath with beardless tips, within the blossom: leaves by fours: blossom trumpet-shaped: stem low and shrubby.
DESCRIPTION.
A dwarf shrub: the small and large branches thread-shaped and twiggy.
Leaves by fours, linear, pointed, and between erect and spreading.
Flowers grow about the middle of the branches, scattered: footstalks short.
Blossom red, trumpet-shaped, and very slender: segments of the border are sharp-pointed and spreading.
Seed-bud turban-shaped and furrowed.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from June till August.
REFERENCE.
1. The Leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. The Chives detached from the Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, one tip magnified. 5. Seed-bud magnified.
This elegant dwarf shrub was named after the late Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart. Our figure was drawn in the summer of 1818 from a plant four years old; and if we can judge from the appearance of those plants we have seen in different collections, it will continue to be, as it is at present, slow in growth and low in stature.
