ERICA barbata, major.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. Flores in ultimis ramulis terminales, umbellati, cernui. Pedunculi longi, pilosi. Corolla urceolata, alba, pilosa, viscosa. Perianthium tetraphyllum, foliolis spathulatis, barbatis, glanduloso-pilosis. Folia quaterna, ciliata, barbata, ovata. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis. Ramuli villosiusculi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the small branches in umbels, nodding. The peduncles are long and hairy. Blossom pitcher-shaped, white, hairy and viscous. Cup four-leaved: leaflets spathula-shaped, bearded and glandularly hairy. Leaves by fours, fringed, bearded, and oval. Stem shrubby, a foot high. The smaller branches a little hairy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till August.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. The chives detached, one tip magnified. 4. The pointal magnified.
