ERICA tenella.
Reading edition
DESCRIPTIO.
Antheræ bicornutæ, inclusæ. Flores in ramulis terminales, congesti, capitati, numerosi, sub-erecti. Corolla ventricosa, parva, pallide-purpurea, ore parum arctata. Folia quaterna, tenuia, linearia, glabra. Caulis spithamæus, erectus, fruticosus. Rami filiformes, virgati, patentes.
DESCRIPTION.
Tips two-horned, and within the blossom. Flowers terminate the branches in clustered small heads, are very numerous, and grow nearly upright. Blossom bellied, small, of a pale purple, the mouth a little narrowed. Leaves by fours, are thin, linear, and smooth. Stem a span high, upright and shrubby. The branches, are thread-shaped, and spreading.
Native of the Cape of Good Hope. In bloom from October till March.
REFERENCE.
1. The empalement magnified. 2. The chives and pointal, one tip magnified. 3. Seed-bud and pointal magnified.
