ERICA comosa, rubra.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores in ramulis terminales. Pedunculi brevissimi. Corolla ventricosa, carnea, basi inflata, apice arctata. Folia quaterna, obtusa, parva, glabra. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, ramosus. Rami erecti, virgati, numerosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminate the small branches. Foot-stalks very short. Blossom bellied, flesh-coloured, swelled at the base, and narrowed at the mouth. Leaves by fours, blunt, small, and smooth. Stem shrubby, a foot high, branching. The branches are numerous, upright, and twiggy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from August till December.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. A chive magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
