ERICA glutinosa.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ muticæ, inclusæ. Flores horizontales, verticillis confertis. Corolla cylindrica, pollicaris, pallide-lutea, costata, glutinosissima, nitida. Folia sena, linearia, acuminata, glabra, læviter sulcata. Caulis bipedalis. Rami simplices, longi, raro ramulosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips beardless, within the blossom. The flowers grow horizontally in crowded whorls. Blossom cylindrical, an inch long, of a pale yellow, ribbed, very clammy, and shining. Leaves by sixes, linear, pointed, smooth, and slightly furrowed. Stem two feet high. The branches are simple, long, and seldom branched.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from September till March.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement and floral leaves magnified. 2. The chives and pointal. 3. The same spread open, one tip magnified. 4. The seed-bud and pointal, summit magnified.
