ERICA physodes.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ cristatæ, inclusæ. Corolla ovata, inflata, glabra, viscosa, crystallina, alba, magnitudine pisi; laciniis acuminatis erectis. Folia quaterna, obtusa, margine glandulosa, viscosa, patentia. Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis, erectus, ramulosus.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips crested, within the blossoms, which are egg-shaped, swelled out, smooth, clammy, like crystal, and white, the size of a pea; segments of the border tapering and upright. Leaves by fours, are blunt, the edges glandular, clammy, and spreading. Stem shrubby, grows two feet high, is upright, and has numerous little branches.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from February till July.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. A chive magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal magnified.
