ERICA exsurgens, minor.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, sub-exertæ. Flores in medio ramorum verticillati, recti, verticilli alter alteri exsurgentes. Corolla clavato-cylindrica, saturate aurantia, semi-uncialis. Folia sena, linearia, glabra, apice mucronata. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis. Rami erecti, simplices.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, just without the blossom. Flowers grow in whorls near the middle of the branches, straight out; the whorls rise out of each other in succession. Blossom cylindrically club-shaped, of a deep orange-colour, half an inch long. Leaves by sixes, linear, smooth, and sharp at the point. Stem shrubby, a foot high. The branches are upright and simple.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from June till October.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement and blossom. 2. Flower of a yellow variety. 3. The chives spread open, one tip magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. The seed-bud magnified.
