ERICA empetroides.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ, stylo exserto. Flores in medio ramorum densissimè spicati, horizontaliter siti. Pedunculi brevissimi. Corolla urceolata, carnea, odorata. Folia sena, linearia, villosa, obtusa, horizontalia. Caulis debilis, pedalis. Rami filiformes, laxi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, within the blossom, shaft without. Flowers in close spikes in the centre of the branches, standing out horizontally, with very short footstalks. Blossom pitcher-shaped, flesh-coloured, and sweet-scented. Leaves by sixes, linear, hairy, blunt and horizontal. Stem weak, a foot high. The branches are thread-shaped and loose.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from May till August.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. Empalement and blossom. 3. Empalement magnified. 4. The chives and pointal. 5. A chive magnified. 6. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 7. The seed-bud magnified.
