ERICA exsurgens.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, exsertæ. Corolla clavato-cylindracea, pollicaris, aurantia. Flores verticillati; verticillis alter altero exsurgentibus. Folia quaterna, linearia, glabra, apice reflexo, mucronato. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis et ultra, erectus. Rami verticillati.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, without the blossom. Blossoms cylindrically club-shaped, an inch long, and orange-coloured; grow in whorls, the whorls rising out of each other in succession. Leaves grow by fours, are linear, smooth, and bent downward at the point, which is sharp. Stem shrubby, rather more than a foot high, upright. The branches grow in whorls.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from September till March.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement and floral leaves. 2. The chives detached from the pointal. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
