ERICA viscaria.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Corolla campanulata, valde mucosa, purpurascens. Folia quaterna, linearia, acuta, glabra; juniora in apicibus ramulorum viscosa. Caulis fruticosus, bipedalis, erectus. Rami simplices, longi, superne viscosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossoms, which are bell-shaped, very clammy, and purple. Leaves grow by fours, are linear, pointed, and smooth: the younger ones are clammy at the ends of the branches. Stem shrubby, two feet high, and upright. Branches simple, long, and clammy at the ends.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from April till July.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The blossom. 3. The chives and pointal. 4. A chive magnified. 5. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
