ERICA sulphurea.
Reading edition
CHARACTER SPECIFICUS.
Erica, antheris muticis, sub-inclusis: stylo exerto: floribus cylindraceis, sessilibus: foliis quaternis.
DESCRIPTIO.
Caulis pedalis et ultra, erectus: rami sparsi, virgati, frequentes, villosi.
Folia quaterna, tenuia, obtusa, villosa, erecta.
Flores sub-solitarii, sessiles, ramulos terminantes: corollis cylindraceo-clavatis, curvatis, villosis: limbo campanulato, revoluto.
Germen tiaræforme, sulcatum, ad basin nectariis melliferis instructum.
Habitat ad Caput Bonæ Spei.
Floret a mense Junii ad Octobrem.
REFERENTIA.
1. Folium lente auctum. 2. Calyx lente auctus. 3. Stamina et Pistillum, antherâ unâ lente auctâ. 4. Germen et Pistillum, stigmate lente aucto.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Heath, with beardless tips, just within the blossom: shaft without: flowers are cylindrical and sessile: leaves by fours.
DESCRIPTION.
Stem a foot or more high, upright: branches scattered, twiggy, numerous, and hairy.
Leaves by fours, thin, blunt, villose, and upright.
Flowers grow singly, sessile, and terminate the smaller branches: blossoms cylindrically club-shaped, curved, and hairy: the segments of the border are bell-shaped, and rolled back.
Seed-bud turban-shaped, furrowed, and furnished at the base with honey-bearing nectaries.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope.
Flowers from June till October.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. The Empalement magnified. 3. Chives and Pointal, one tip magnified. 4. Seed-bud and Pointal, summit magnified.
This lively shrub was first raised from Cape seed at the Hammersmith Nursery in 1814. In its general character it very much resembles the E. tubiflora and the E. sordida, distinct from each, and yet resembling both. It is a brilliant addition to the gay and extensive genus Erica.
