ERICA plumosa.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ aristatæ, inclusæ. Flores axillares, verticillati, sub-solitarii, cernui. Corolla urceolata, glabra, purpurea. Folia quaterna, obtusa, villosa, patentia, linearia. Caulis fruticosus, flexuosus, pedalis. Rami et ramuli filiformes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips bearded, within the blossom. Flowers grow from the insertion of the leaves, whorled, mostly solitary, and nodding. Blossom pitcher-shaped, smooth, and purple. Leaves by fours, blunt, hairy, linear, and spreading. Stem shrubby, and taking various directions, a foot high. The large and small branches are thread-shaped.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from March till July.
REFERENCE.
1. A leaf magnified. 2. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 3. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 5. The seed-bud magnified.
