ERICA Archeria.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ, stylo exserto. Corolla tubuloso-clavata, pollicaris, villosa, rubro-purpurea, viscosa. Folia sena, linearia, rigida, patentia, margine serrato-ciliata. Caulis fruticosus, erectus, sesquipedalis. Rami erecti, simplices.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom, shaft without. Blossoms tubularly club-shaped, an inch long, hairy, of a red purple colour, and clammy. Leaves by sixes, linear, harsh, spreading, and sawed like a fringe at the margin. Stem shrubby, upright, a foot and a half high. Branches upright and simple.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from August till November.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified.
