ERICA barbata minor.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ cristatæ, subexsertæ. Flores terminales, umbellati, cernui. Corolla urceolata, alba, pilosa, viscosa, calyce spathulato, glanduloso-piloso. Pedanculi colorati. Folia quaterna, barbata, ovata, patentia. Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis. Rami filiformes, laxi, patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, just without the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in umbels, nodding. Blossom pitcher-shaped, white, hairy and viscous, with the cup spathula-shaped, and glandularly hairy. Footstalks coloured. Leaves by fours, bearded, ovate and spreading. Stem shrubby, two feet high. Branches thread-shaped, limber and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from August till March.
REFERENCE.
1. The under side of a leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. The chives detached, one tip magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified.
