ERICA pinea.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Corolla tubuloso-clavata, sub-albida. Flores in medio ramorum verticillati, horizontales, pollicares. Folia sena, linearia, glabra, patentia, longissima. Caulis erectus, bipedalis, robustus. Rami verticillati, erecto-patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom, which is tubularly club-shaped, and nearly white. Flowers grow in whorls about the middle of the branches, horizontal, an inch in length. Leaves by sixes, linear, smooth, spreading outward, very long. Stem upright, two feet high, very stout. Branches in whorls, spreading, upright.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from August till December.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement and floral leaves. 2. The chives detached from the pointal, a tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. The seed-bud magnified.
