ERICA fastigiata.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores terminales, quaterni, fastigiati, subsessiles. Calyx duplex; exterior triphyllus, adpressus, marginibus membranaceis, serrulatis. Corolla alba, pellucida, ad basin inflata. Folia quaterna, linearia, glabra. Caulis fruticosus, pedalis, flexuosus; ramulis numerosis.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. Flowers terminal, in fours, nearly sessile, forming level-topt bunches. Empalement double; the outer one three-leaved and pressed to the inner; the margins skinny and serrulated. Blossom white, pellucid, and swelled at the base. Leaves by fours, linear, and smooth. Stem shrubby, a foot high, flexuose; the branches numerous.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from December till May.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified. 4. Seed-bud magnified.
