ERICA comosa.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in ramulis terminales, quasi spicam comosam densam formantes. Pedunculi brevissimi. Corolla ventricosa, alba, basi inflata, apice arctata. Folia quaterna, obtusa, patentia, parva, glabra. Caulis fruticosus, subpedalis, ramosus. Rami virgati, penduli.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the small branches, forming as it were a thick tufted spike. Footstalks very short. Blossom bellied, white, swelled at the base, and narrowed at the mouth. Leaves by fours, blunt, spreading, small, and smooth. Stem shrubby, near a foot high, and branching. The branches are twiggy, and hang down.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from June till September.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified.
