ERICA setacea.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ basi bicornes, inclusæ. Flores in ultimis ramulis terminales, sub-terni, spicati. Corolla urceolata, glabra, sub-albida, parva. Folia terna, linearia, obtusa, supra sub-scabrida, margine setacea, revoluta. Caulis, rami, et ramuli, filiformes, flexuosi, tenuissime scabri, villosi.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned at the base, within the blossom. Flowers grow mostly by threes at the extremity of the small branches, forming a spike. Blossom pitcher-shaped, smooth, whitish, and small. Leaves by threes, linear, blunt, roughish on the upper side, bristly, and rolled back at the edge. Stem, branches and small branches thread-shaped, bending, slightly rough and hairy.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from February till April.
REFERENCE.
1. The underside of a leaf magnified. 2. The empalement magnified. 3. The chives and pointal. 4. A chive magnified. 5. Seed-bud and pointal magnified.
